For several years, data analytics and AI have been the keystones for businesses to identify hidden patterns, unknown correlations, emerging market trends, and customer habits and preferences. These tools also extract other insights that can be used to influence business choices, improve performance, and save costs, which help customers make more informed decisions that drive overall business growth.
The key to a successful application of data analytics techniques is the amount of data readily available. That is, the more data available, the more and better insights can be extracted, making data a significant material asset for businesses and governments alike.
A recent report by the IDC predicts that over the next five years, data will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21.2 percent, thus reaching more than 221,000 exabytes by 2026. Furthermore, this trend is expected to continue in the future as AI, digital services, and connected devices become more pervasive.
The following figure shows the predicted future growth of exabyte data1:
To manage the massive amount of data being produced every day effectively, organizations must invest in reliable data processing, networking, and storage resources. They must also invest in data analytics platforms that enable them to make timely decisions.
This white paper highlights the results of a data analytics processing test run on Dell's 16th Generation PowerEdge servers powered by 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors using the TPCx-BB benchmark. The TPCx-BB benchmark is the benchmark standard published by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) to measure the performance of systems (hardware and software) when performing data analytics tasks on large datasets. The PowerEdge 16G systems are Dell Technologies' latest enterprise servers delivering performance and acceleration for mixed or intensive workloads, including database and analytics, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). See the Dell PowerEdge R760 Specification Sheet.
Similarly, the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are designed to deliver high levels of performance, platform capabilities, and industry-leading acceleration for advanced data analytics, AI, high-density infrastructure, and multicloud workloads. See the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Product Brief.
This white paper presents a test in which a world-record score of 4,519.40 BBQpm was achieved, an improvement over the previous top result by 1.5 times, while also improving its price per performance by two. The official result has been published on the TPC’s website. See TPCx-BB Result Highlights.
The following sections provide additional details about the benchmark tests and the systems used to achieve these results.