Customers testing on 256 Processor Superdome

Published 18 August 09 03:19 PM | EEC 

Recently I was able to work with BWIN, the world’s largest online sports-betting and gaming provider, at the EEC while they tested the scaling of their workload on the world’s largest Windows Server, a HP Superdome with 128 cores and 256 threads, and HP’s largest disk array, a HP XP24000.

 

We were able to test various configurations (64 cores, 128 cores, Hyperthreading on or off) during their stay and gathered tons of performance data around optimizing BWIN’s SQL Server performance. This was the first real-life customer test on a system with more than 64 processors, a great proof point for Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2.

 

Check out the screen shot, task manager showing 256 processors!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To find out more about the Superdome go to

http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/cache/342431-0-0-0-121.html

 

Details about the XP24000 can be found at http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/xp24000/specs.html

 

Gunter Zink,

Performance Architect, HP

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Comments

# Gordon Newman said on November 13, 2009 3:52 PM:

Hi Gunter,

Very impressive. We thought it was pretty cool lighting up all 64 cores on the Superdome in the EEC last year. This is quite the beast of a machine - 128 cores!!

Regards,

Gordon Newman

EMC Enterprise Engineering.

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