IBM Breaks Computing Speed Barrier

IBM announced that an IBM POWER5(TM) processor-based IBM eServer(TM), running DB2® Universal Database(TM), has attained a milestone in computing history, soaring past the barrier of three million transactions per minute on the TPC-C benchmark and setting a new world record for computing speed.

On the crucial TPC-C benchmark test, the IBM eServer p5 595 and DB2 combination not only tripled the performance of the HP Integrity To set the new TPC-C record, IBM leveraged the combined power of its POWER5 processor-based server -- the eServer p5 595 -- and IBM's leading-edge AIX 5L(TM)operating system and DB2®, the industry's leading database.

The TPC-C (www.tpc.org)  benchmark is an industry standard for measuring the ability of a server to process complex queries and large volumes of business data.