NEC Corp. blasted back into the high-end Windows scalability fray this week with the first major audited benchmark showing significant scalability for a 64-bit Windows-based system.
The system achieved the fifth-best non-clustered result overall, after five Unix systems (two are tied), and nearly doubled the performance of the previous best Windows system -- a Unisys 32-processor machine running 32-bit processors and software.
True to the promise of Microsoft-Intel solutions in the enterprise, the cost per transaction was lower than any of the Unix systems that had better raw performance results than the NEC/Itanium 2/Microsoft combination.
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