Sun Microsystems and SAS are claiming a datawarehouse
performance benchmark.
Sun says that its Sun Fire E25K server running UltraSparc IV+
processors on the Solaris 10 operating system, teamed with the SAS
Enterprise Data Integration Server offers throughput leadership for
the extraction, transformation and loading of massive volumes of
data into a datawarehouse.
To achieve the benchmark, a Sun Fire E25K server with 48 x
1.5GHz UltraSparc IV+ processors handled 4.29 terabytes of raw data
in less than 70 minutes. Sun StorageTek 3510FC arrays were used to
provide read/write storage bandwidth and connectivity to multiple
host domains, and Solaris 10 was used also, at times at 100% system
utilisation.
Sun assesses the challenge to business as one where many large
enterprises often deploy a multi-partitioned server to serve
disparate departmental needs, such that high levels of reliability,
availability and serviceability can be easily provided. Even though
the departments might be disparate, Sun believes they often need to
access the same datawarehouses generated from corporate-wide
transactional sources. SAS Enterprise Data Integration Server
allows the utilisation of multiple domains during off-peak times
for the warehouse load.
