IBM has introduced the world’s most powerful server, the IBM System p5 595 — a 64-core speed demon capable of a record-shattering four million transactions per minute at an affordable cost per transaction. IBM attributed the huge leap in performance to the company’s new Dual Stress processor technology, pioneered for ultra fast videogames and making its first appearance in System p5 machines.

Owning the No. 1 position in five key benchmarks, the new IBM System p5 595 is designed to help companies improve IT operational efficiency while cutting overall infrastructure costs. The 64-core IBM p5-595 running a single instance of the IBM DB2 9 data server on the AIX 5L operating system and using IBM System Storage DS4800, processed 4,016,222 transactions per minute on the TPC-C benchmark — 3.2 times better than the HP Integrity Superdome. The TPC-C benchmark is an industry standard for measuring the ability of a system to process complex online transactions and large volumes of business data.