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Three-year TCO comparison of two-socket systems (see Figures 1–3 and Table 1); all hardware costs were provided by Dell Technologies in November 2020 and IBM in May 2020 and are based on retail pricing without discounts.
Three-year TCO comparison of four-socket systems (see Figures 1–3 and Table 1); all hardware costs were provided by Dell Technologies in November 2020 and IBM in May 2020 and are based on retail pricing without discounts.
8 Source: Oracle Technology Global Price List. September 2020. Accessed December 21, 2020. Pricing covers Oracle® Database Enterprise Edition, processor license, and the Oracle® Real Application Clusters (RAC) add-on. Licensing subject to the Oracle core factor (number of cores times 0.5 for Intel® Xeon® processors and times 1.0 for IBM® AIX® processors).
9 Source for maximum system power, 300 watts, for Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R740xd running 2 x 18-core Intel® Xeon® Gold 6240 processors was Dell Technologies. “Dell EMC Technical Guide: PowerEdge R740740xd.” 2017. https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Merchandizing_Docs/ja/poweredge-r740-r740xd-technical-guide-190712.pdf.
10 Source for maximum system power, 1,222 watts, for IBM® Power® System S924 running 2 x 12-core IBM® POWER9™ processors, 24 x 64 GB DDR4 memory was the IBM Energy Estimator tool: https://see.au-syd.mybluemix.net/see/EnergyEstimator. Accessed December 4, 2020. Redbooks. “IBM Power System S924.” 2018. www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5509.pdf.
11 United States Energy Information Administration. “Electric Power Monthly.” September 2020. www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/ epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a.
12 Source for maximum system power, 600 watts, for Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ R940 running 4 x 18-core Intel® Xeon® Gold 6240 processors with 24 x 16 GB DRAM was Intel. “Product Specifications: Intel® Xeon® Gold 6240 Processor” https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/192443/intel-xeon-gold-6240-processor-24-75m-cache-2-60-ghz.html.
13 Source for maximum system power, 2,016 watts, for IBM® Power® System E950 running 4 x 12-core IBM® POWER9™ processors, 48 x 64 GB DDR4 memory was the IBM Energy Estimator tool: https://see.au-syd.mybluemix.net/see/EnergyEstimator. Accessed December 4, 2020.