HP AlphaServer systems outperform competition

Highly scalable systems provide powerful expansion

• New AlphaServer systems deliver incredible memory bandwidth, 3 times IBM p690 at 32 processors and 7 times SunFire 15K at 64 processors, making expansion easy and efficient
• STREAM benchmark measures real memory bandwidth, eliminating "cache" bias of other standard benchmarks

• Benchmarked in real customer setting and HP labs
• Delivering scalable I/O bandwidth for the most demanding data intensive environments

AlphaServer systems family delivers performance superior to IBM and SUN for commercial computing ³

• Maximum SPECint_rate2000 more than double comparable the IBM eServer pSeries system.¹
• Maximum SPECint_rate2000 35% higher than comparable Sun Fire systems.²

AlphaServer systems family delivers performance superior to IBM and SUN for technical computing³

• Maximum SPECfp_rate2000 is 2.87 times that of a comparable IBM eServer pSeries system.¹

• Maximum SPECfp_rate2000 is 50% higher than that of a comparable Sun Fire system.²

Delivering significant application performance enhancements over previous systems

Combining balanced system design, with dramatic improvements in memory and I/O bandwidth turn into real application performance improvements

30% to 50% increases in application performance seen for Tru64 UNIX® environments and 50% to 100% and even higher seen for OpenVMS environments. (comparisons based on GS1280 and GS160 systems with similar configurations)