An NEC server with 32 of Intel's forthcoming Itanium 2 6M processors and running the Windows Server 2003 has secured the top spot in a widely watched performance measurement. The system, an NEC Express5800/1320Xc costing US$5.9 million, displaced a 128-processor Unix server from Fujitsu that has been No. 1 since August 2001 on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C test. The NEC system is the first Windows system to achieve the top spot, and also is the least expensive of the top 10 on the TPC-C list.
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