Fusion-io and HP Achieve 11,000 JOPS

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Fusion-io-powered IO enabled HP to build the world’s first complete online transaction processing (OLTP) system in a single box. Fusion-io, inventors of a new memory tier of flash-based solid state (ioMemory) and HP deployed Fusion-io’s IO Accelerators, which are based on Fusion’s ioMemory technology, in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s jAPpServer 2004.

This was the first time these tests, which measure database performance, have ever been run with only internal data storage. No external components were required in building the OLTP database infrastructure used in testing. Instead, the IO Accelerators, which offer a new, flash-based, server-deployed memory tier, provided the performance density needed for HP to combine a database, application and storage servers and networks all in one c-7000 enclosure.

The architecture of three Fusion-powered blade servers (and 24 cores) achieved 11,000 JOPS (java operations per second), versus the closest competitor, which achieved between 1,200 to 4,000 JOPS, using between 20 to 50 cores and as many as 26 nodes. With the ioAccelerator cards, the HP servers were able to achieve more than double the performance with an 8:1 or higher server consolidation ratio.

“It was our first-ever ‘all-bladed’ benchmark,” said Martin Whittaker, vice president of APS/ESS at HP. “The IO Accelerators made it possible for us to combine everything: database servers, application servers, storage servers and networks all in one enclosure to achieve amazing results. It was the ‘holy grail’ of database servers—everything you need in one box.”