Benchmarks TPC-H Benchmark: 16 processor, Dual Core Intel® Itanium® 2-based system

On July 18, 2006, the ES7000/one enterprise server delivered the best TPC-H price/performance ever recorded for a non-clustered, Intel-based server in the benchmark's 3000 GB database category. The 16-way ES7000/one also achieved performance in the benchmark comparable to that of a larger 32-way HP platform running the previous generation of Itanium 2 processors while lowering the cost per TPC-H composite query-per-hour (QphH) by more than 80 percent ¹.

The ES7000/one server with 16 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors achieved 30,013.4 queries per hour on a 3000 GB database (QphH @ 3000 GB), at a price of $37.83/QphH @ 3000 GB per query.
 
You can review the TPC-H non-clustered results on the TPC website. The fourth table (3000 GB results) contains the relevant data. 

About TPC-H

TPC-H is a decision-support benchmark, consisting of a suite of business-oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data modifications. The queries and the data populating the database were chosen for their broad industry-wide relevance.  You can learn more about TPC-H methodology on the TPC.org website.

1) The Unisys ES7000/one server with 16 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 processor 9000 Series, 32 cores and using 64 execution threads (availability September 8, 2006) achieved 30,013.4 TPC-H composite queries per hour with a 3000-gigabyte database size (QphH @ 3000 GB) and a cost of $37.83 USD per QpH @ 3000GB. The Unisys server ran Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise IA64 Edition. The HP Integrity Superdome with 32 Intel Itanium 2 processors, 32 cores and using 32 execution threads (availability May 5, 2006), also running Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise IA64 Edition, achieved 30,957 QpH @ 3000 GB at $75.16 USD per QpH @ 3000 GB.