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NEC Corporation announced that its Intel Itanium 2 processor-based server, Express5800/1160Xe, has achieved the world's best TPC-C benchmark performance on an 8-processor IA server platform. The 254,471 transactions per minute (tpmC) was accomplished by using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 for Itanium Processors Family, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition and BEA Tuxedo 8.1. This also represents the best TPC-C benchmark performance on an 8-processor Linux server platform. TPC-C is an industry-standard benchmark for measuring a system's processing performance based on an enterprise transaction model for handling orders. This outstanding performance was accomplished by leveraging NEC's high performance cross-bar switching technology, which supports up to over 100GB/s aggregated throughput, and its unique addressing network technology for high speed cache coherency control. These technologies are both derived from NEC's long experience with supercomputer development. Furthermore, the long term collaboration of product development and performance optimization with many software and middleware companies on server platforms developed by NEC played a significant role in achieving this performance. NEC intends to enhance and expand its line of Intel Itanium 2 processor-based servers and 64bit Linux enterprise solutions with Oracle Database 10g to meet mission-critical business needs for the enterprise market. Performance Results Throughput 254,471 tpmC Price/Performance $5.32/tpmC Availability Date February 17, 2006 System NEC Express5800/1160Xe Server Processor Intel Itanium2 processors (1.6GHz / 9M L3 cache) The number of processors 8 The number of processor cores 8 The number of processor threads 8 System Memory 256GB OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 Database Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Transaction Monitor BEA Tuxedo 8.1 Disk Array N EC S2300 Storage Disk Array Availability The total system under test will be available by February 17, 2006. Server and disk array hardware are available now.