HOUSTON, TX -- Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ) today announced that a 32-node cluster of market-leading Compaq ProLiant(TM) DL760 servers has achieved a new world-record performance TPC-C benchmark result of 709,220.08 transactions per minute (tpmC) at a cost of only $14.96 per tpmC. This result reportedly leads the industry for price: performance in the Transaction Processing Council Top Ten list of clustered TPC-C benchmarks (http://www.tpc.org ). This benchmark represents the equivalent of processing more than 1 billion transactions per day, or in real-world terms, more than triple the transactions handled daily, worldwide, by a large consumer credit card payment processing system. The benchmark was achieved on scale-out configuration of 32 ProLiant DL760 servers, each with eight 900MHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Xeon(TM) processors, running Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000 Advanced Server and Microsoft SQL(R) Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. This result underscores the enterprise-class performance, scalability, and investment protection of ProLiant DL760 platforms, and continues to demonstrate Compaq's commitment to providing customers with the best IT infrastructure solutions required to accelerate business velocity and deliver continuous operations. Visit the TPC web site at www.tpc.org for more information