Fujitsu ICL, the UK division of Fujitsu Ltd, claims that its new Superserver J652i is the fastest dual processor server on the market running Windows NT. The machine – which will no doubt be leapfrogged as soon as servers based on Intel’s new MMX chip hit the market – is said to have achieved 4,247.6 tpmC transactions per minute at $80.83 per tpmC, which the company claims is 8% faster than the previous best dual processor running under Windows NT. Fujitsu also says that the results, conducted using Windows NT Server 4.0 and SQL Server 6.5, show that in price- performance terms, the Fujitsu Superserver is around 30% more efficient than reduced instruction set computer systems. The Superserver J625i is a dual 200MHz Pentium Pro-based server, upgradable to four-way, and configurable with up to 2Gb of memory and 12 disks in the system cabinet. The benchmarked system consisted of two 200MHz Pentium Pro-based Fujitsu ErgoPro e661/200 clients and the Superserver itself. The clients were running Windows NT Server 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Connector, servicing a total of 3,600 Web users, each feeding SQL requests to the backend database server, which was configured with 2Gb of memory and 69 hard disks.
