Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization of Complex Systems
Volume 6417 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 110-120
Transaction Performance vs. Moore’s Law: A Trend Analysis
- Raghunath NambiarAffiliated withCisco Systems, Inc.
- , Meikel PoessAffiliated withOracle Corporation
Abstract
Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore postulated in his famous 1965 paper that the number of components in integrated circuits had doubled every year from their invention in 1958 until 1965, and then predicted that the trend would continue for at least ten years. Later, David House, an Intel colleague, after factoring in the increase in performance of transistors, concluded that integrated circuits would double in performance every 18 months. Despite this trend in microprocessor improvements, your favored text editor continues to take the same time to start and your PC takes pretty much the same time to reboot as it took 10 years ago. Can this observation be made on systems supporting the fundamental aspects of our information based economy, namely transaction processing systems?
For over two decades the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has been very successful in disseminating objective and verifiable performance data to the industry. During this period the TPC’s flagship benchmark, TPC-C, which simulates Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Systems has produced over 750 benchmark publications across a wide range of hardware and software platforms representing the evolution of transaction processing systems. TPC-C results have been published by over two dozen unique vendors and over a dozen database platforms, some of them exist, others went under or were acquired. But TPC-C survived. Using this large benchmark result set, we discuss a comparison of TPC-C performance and price-performance to Moore’s Law.
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Trends in System and Database Performance Benchmark Standards- Title
- Transaction Performance vs. Moore’s Law: A Trend Analysis
- Book Title
- Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization of Complex Systems
- Book Subtitle
- Second TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2010, Singapore, September 13-17, 2010. Revised Selected Papers
- Pages
- pp 110-120
- Copyright
- 2011
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-18206-8_9
- Print ISBN
- 978-3-642-18205-1
- Online ISBN
- 978-3-642-18206-8
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Series Volume
- 6417
- Series ISSN
- 0302-9743
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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- Topics
- Keywords
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- Trends in System and Database Performance
- Benchmark Standards
- Industry Sectors
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- Editors
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- Raghunath Nambiar (16)
- Meikel Poess (17)
- Editor Affiliations
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- 16. Access and Virtualization Business Unit, Cisco Systems, Inc.
- 17. Server Technologies, Oracle Corporation
- Authors
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- Raghunath Nambiar (18)
- Meikel Poess (19)
- Author Affiliations
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- 18. Cisco Systems, Inc., 3800 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA, 95134, USA
- 19. Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Pkwy, Redwood Shores, CA, 94065, USA
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