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January 2015

HP shows impressive SPEC performance records

New extraordinary servers, new extraordinary results!
All benchmarks for HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity Server, HP Converged Systems, and HP Qualified Options can
be found on the benchmark website: hp.com/products/servers/benchmarks

Newest results for:

HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade

HP Integrity Superdome X Server

HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA

Maintaining leadership status in performance, HP servers continue to deliver benchmark firsts and worldwide
leadership across the performance landscape.
The following are the most recent leadership results that showcase HP servers performance expertise:
HP ProLiant
BL460c Gen9
Server Blade takes
top blade
positions on most
SPEC CPU2006
speed metrics

Sharper than ever, the new HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade earned the
#1 blade spot with SPECint_base2006, SPECfp_base2006, and SPECfp2006
results on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
operating system and Intel Xeon Processors E5-2643 v3 and E5-2667 v3,
ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade results defeated the next highest blade
server competitors: Huawei, Dell, and Fujitsu. Read the performance brief.

New HP Integrity
Superdome X is
front-runner for 16P
and 8P x86 servers
on SPEC CPU2006
benchmark

HP keeps the performance leadership ball rolling with its latest SPEC
CPU2006 performance results. The 8P and 16P HP Integrity Superdome X
server results on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark show superior performance,
holding the #1 8P x86 SPEC CPU2006 rate results and #1 overall 16P SPEC
CPU2006 rate base results. Read the performance brief.

New HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Server

achieves world records on
SPECvirt_sc2013 benchmark

The new HP ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Server has achieved the #1 2P

performance and #1 overall performance/power results on the
SPECvirt_sc2013 benchmark. These results show that the server is ideally
suited for running workloads in a virtualized environment. The server was
configured with two Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 18-core processors, 16 x 32GB
DDR4 2133 MHz DIMMs, and the new HP Smart Array Controllers P440ar and
P441, running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (KVM) operating system.
Read the performance brief.

Check out our sustaining #1 records and worldwide firsts

Meanwhile, HP continues to maintain its worldwide results, in addition to being the first in the industry to achieve
results for several benchmarks.
Read the performance briefs on all HP server results at hp.com/products/servers/benchmarks.
2P ProLiant servers
#1 performance result on TPC-VMS virtualization: ProLiant DL380p Gen8
#1 price/performance on TPC-VMS virtualization: ProLiant DL385p Gen8
#1 2P performance using Microsoft Windows/SQL on TPC-H 1000GB non-clustered: ProLiant DL380 Gen9
#1 2P PPW, and PPW Server on SPECvirt_sc2013: ProLiant DL360 Gen9
4P ProLiant servers
#1 overall performance using Microsoft Windows/SQL on TPC-H 3000GB non-clustered: ProLiant DL580 Gen8
#1 overall performance using Microsoft Windows/SQL on TPC-H 10000GB non-clustered: ProLiant DL580 Gen8
Server blades
#1 2-host, 4-socket blade virtualization performance result on the VMmark 2.5.2 benchmark: ProLiant BL660c
Gen8 Server Blade
#1 2P performance on three-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark: BL460c Gen8 Server Blade Ivy Bridge
#1 multi-host blade, multi-host 2P, and multi-host AMD performance on VMmark 2.x multi-host: ProLiant BL465c
Gen8 Server Blade
ConvergedSystem
FIRST to achieve two billion initial records on SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse-Enhanced Mixed Load (BWEML) standard application benchmark: HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA with the ProLiant DL580 Gen8
Server
Sources: All benchmark data is publicly available on websites listed below. All performance briefs listed are publicly available on the hp.com website and are customer
viewable. See benchmark details below.
SPEC
Results are published as of 01-23-15, see spec.org.
VMmark
The latest competitive benchmark claims are based on having the #1 VMmark 2.x 2-host, 4P socket-blade with the HP ProLiant BL660c Gen8, and the #1VMmark
2.x multi-host blade, multi-host 2P, and multi-host AMD server with the BL465c Gen8.
These benchmark results are as of 01-13-15. All disclosures are available at vmware.com/a/vmmark.
TPC
TPC-H results show the HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server with a result of 461,837QphH @3,000GB and $2.04/QphH @ 3,000GB, non-clustered see tpc.org/3297
and 404,005QphH @10,000GB and $2.34/QphH non-clustered with system availability as of April 22, 2014 see tpc.org/3298.
TPC-H results show the HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Server with a result of 390,590 QphH @ 1000GB and $0.97QphH @ 1000GB, non-clustered, with system
availability as of September 8, 2014 see tpc.org/3303.
TPC-VMS results show the HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Server with results of 718.12 VMStpsE and $648.00 USD/VMStpsE system with availability as of April 14,
2014 see tpc.org/5202.
TPC-VMS results show the HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 with a result of 457.55VMStpsE and USD$571.00/VMStpsE with system availability date as of 9-30-13 see
tpc.org/5201.
TPC-E results show the DL385p Gen8 with a result of 1416.37 tpsE @ $183.00/tpsE with system availability date as of 05-15-13 see tpc.org/4064.
These benchmark results are as of 01-13-15. See tpc.org for up-to-date information.

SAP
The ProLiant BL460c Gen8 Server achieved 60,000 SAP SD benchmark users, 328,120 SAPS, and a response time of 0.97 seconds on the three-tier SAP SD
standard application benchmark (certification 2013036). The platform ran Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter x64 on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database, and SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0. The HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 Server Blade setup was
configured with: Application tier: 11 x ProLiant BL460c Gen8 Server Blades running 2 VMs each. Each VM is composed of 16 virtual processors. Intel Xeon E52680 @ 2.70GHz (2 processors/16 cores/32 threads), HP Smart Memory 16GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R 1066MHz (256GB), 1 x Onboard Smart Array P410i Controller
with 1GB FBWC to 2 x internal drives (2 x 300GB 10K 6G SAS SFF), 1 x HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 560FLB Adapter. Database tier: 1 x BL460c Gen8 Server with 1 VM
composed of 48 virtual processors. Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz (2 processors/24 cores/48 threads); HP Smart Memory 16GB 2Rx4 PC3-12800R 1066MHz
(256GB), 1 x Onboard Smart Array P410i Controller with 1GB FBWC to 2 x internal drives (2 x 300GB 10K 6G SAS SFF); 1 x HP Flex10 10Gb 2-port 530FLB Adapter; 1
x QLogic QMH2572 8Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class to 3PAR V400 with 240 x 600GB FC disks (15K RPM) and 48 x 200GB SSDs.
The ProLiant BL680c G7 Server Blade achieved 128,650 ad-hoc query steps per hour with 3,000,000,000 records on the three-tier SAP NetWeaver BW-EML
standard application benchmark (certification number 2013037). The HP ProLiant BL680c G7 Server Blade was configured with: Presentation tier: One benchmark
driver (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11); Application tier: One HP ProLiant BL680c G7 Server Blade: Four 2.40GHz Intel Xeon E7-4870 Processors (4
processors/40 cores/80 threads), 512GB main memory and one HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 Server Blade with two 2.70GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680 Processors (2
processors/16 cores/32 threads), 256GB main memory; Database tier: Four HP ProLiant BL680c G7 Server Blades: Four 2.40GHz Intel Xeon Processors E7-4870
(4 processors/40 cores/80 threads), 512GB main memory on the server, one NC550SFP Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Adapter, and one HP P812 FBWC Controller with
25 146GB 15K RPM SAS disk drives in one D2700 Disk Enclosure. The platform ran SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system, the SAP HANA database, and
the SAP NetWeaver technology platform 7.30.
SAP benchmark results are as of 01-13-15. Please see sap.com/benchmark for up-to-date information

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