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| AMD Announces Support for the Microsoft RTM of SQL Server 2008 AMD announces its support for the Microsoft Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of SQL Server 2008, its next-generation data and analysis platform. SQL Server 2008 running on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors promises to provide customers with a "best-of-breed" platform for their data-intensive business applications, even during peak workloads. AMD is also highlighting the record-breaking data management and analysis benchmark tests of the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server featuring Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors running SQL Server 2008; these results underscore the performance and scalability promise of this AMD-Microsoft solution. The exceptional scalability and performance of AMD's Direct Connect Architecture is evident in two unique benchmark tests conducted by HP using Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based 8-socket HP ProLiant servers running Microsoft SQL Server 2008. - An HP ProLiant DL785 G5 running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition database has achieved a world record on the TPC-H@300 GB decision support benchmark. - Further, the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 8-socket server with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors Model 2360 SE also achieved first place on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark among 8-processor, 32-core x86 class servers with similar configurations and workloads. At the time of testing, the server was running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 x64 database and the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning application. In addition to posting top database-related scores with SQL Server 2008 and HP ProLiant DL785, the HP ProLiant DL 585 G5 servers based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors also hold top TPC-C scores among 4-processor, 16-core systems, and top SAP SD two-tier benchmark scores among 4-processor, 16-core systems, with SQL Server 2005. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |