Abstract

Intel TIGPR2U vs. Sun Netra 20 competitive test (Tolly Group Report #202160, Nov 2002).

Intel asked Tolly to pit its 2-socket, 2.4 GHz Xeon-based TIGPR2U Carrier-Grade Server (2 RU) against Sun’s 900 MHz UltraSPARC III Netra 20 (4 RU) using TimesTen “tptbm” in-memory database benchmarks that stress carrier-grade event-processing workloads .

Throughput leadership in every scenario.

Across read-only, update-only and mixed workloads, TIGPR2U beat Netra 20 by at least 29 % and as much as 133 %; with eight client processes it sustained 60,183 transactions/s in cursor-stability mode and 78,683 transactions/s in serializable mode—both record marks for the test—and delivered triple-digit percentage gains on the heaviest mixed workloads  .

Denser hardware with richer I/O.

Beyond performance, the Intel chassis occupies half the rack space (2 U vs 4 U), provides dual Gigabit Ethernet (Netra 20 offers one 100 Mbps port) and six PCI-X expansion slots versus four, giving network architects more compute and connectivity per rack unit—valuable in carrier sites where both floor space and throughput are at a premium .