TPC-C simulates a complete computing environment where a population of users executes transactions against a database. The benchmark is centered around the principal activities (transactions) of an order-entry environment. These transactions include entering and delivering orders, recording payments, checking the status of orders, and monitoring the level of stock at the warehouses. While the benchmark portrays the activity of a wholesale supplier, TPC-C is not limited to the activity of any particular business segment, but, rather represents any industry that must manage, sell, or distribute a product or service.[1]
They set the record using a Sparc T3-4 server running a whopping 108 processors with 1728 cores, for a gigantic total of 13,824 threads! The system was equipped with Oracle 11gR2 Database running Oracle's Solaris 10. [2]
References:
- http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/default.asp
- http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=110120201
- Results: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp
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