TPC BenchmarkTM H Full Disclosure Report for IBM® ^ xSeries 346 using IBM DB2® Universal Database 8.2
This report presents the TPC‑H benchmark methodology, test configuration and results for an IBM @server xSeries 346 cluster running IBM DB2 UDB 8.2 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. It includes the hardware specifications, pricing details and a three‑year total cost of ownership.
The configuration consists of 64 IBM xSeries 346 nodes, each equipped with a 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon processor, 4 GB of ECC SDRAM and six 73.4 GB Ultra320 SCSI drives, providing a total of 26,249 GB of storage. Benchmark results show a composite QphH@3000GB of 54,465.9 and a price/performance metric of $32 per QphH.
| Processor | 1 × 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon with 2 MB cache |
|---|---|
| Memory | 8 × 512 MB PC‑3200 ECC SDRAM RDIMMs (4 GB total) |
| Disk Drives | 6 × 73.4 GB 15K Ultra320 SCSI drives per server |
| Server Model | IBM @server xSeries 346 |
| Operating System | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 |
| Database Manager | IBM DB2 UDB 8.2 |
| Database Size (Scale Factor) | 3000 GB |
The configuration uses 64 IBM @server xSeries 346 servers.
The three‑year total system cost is $1,761,686.
Each server is equipped with a 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon processor with 2 MB cache.