Insight from data analytics can translate into timely decision-making and a better understanding of operations. By adding latest-generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ R760 servers to your data center, or replacing aging servers with them, you could run data analysis workloads faster to gain insights sooner.
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Run more data analysis more quickly using Dell PowerEdge R760 servers
The latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server, powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, performed more data analysis in less time than either older server we tested
At Principled Technologies, we assessed the data warehouse capabilities of three Dell PowerEdge server models: a latest-generation PowerEdge R760 powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, a previous-generation PowerEdge R750, and a PowerEdge R740xd. The PowerEdge R760 analyzed more data than either older server and needed less time to do so, which can help you get key business metrics sooner while maintaining a competitive edge.
Our results
The testing results for the PowerEdge R750 and R740xd servers come from our previous work. We’ve continued that work in this study with the latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server, comparing its analytics performance results to those we found in the previous study. Thanks in part to its 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Platinum 8452Y processors, the latest-generation PowerEdge R760 servers show strong performance improvements compared to PowerEdge R750 and R740xd models.
Run more data warehouse workloads
We ran the HammerDB TPROC-H workload on as many VMs as each server could handle. Thus, the servers that supported more VMs also could handle more workloads. Figure 1 shows the VM count each solution supported while running our query workload.
Compared to the seven-year-old PowerEdge R740xd, which supported just 10 VMs, the PowerEdge R760 running 20 VMs completed twice as much work.
The PowerEdge R750 server from our previous study was more capable than the PowerEdge R740xd, supporting 16 VMs before it showed signs of saturation. Compared to the PowerEdge R750, the latest-generation PowerEdge R760 ran 25 percent more work, handling 20 VMs.
See results from data analytics workloads sooner
Having data center resources that allow users to do more work is helpful—it allows IT decision makers to consider consolidating workloads onto fewer servers or increasing a data center’s virtual density without increasing its physical footprint. Figure 2 shows the average time to complete the set of queries for each server solution.
The latest-generation PowerEdge R760 needed 29 percent less time on average than the PowerEdge R750 and 41 percent less time on average than the PowerEdge R740xd.
Conclusion
Data analytics can play a critical role in understanding your organization. With timely data analysis, decision‑makers can respond to trends or activity quickly and with the support of data-driven insight. New Dell PowerEdge R760 servers, either in addition to or in place of aging servers, can boost data warehouse workload performance to deliver insights sooner. In our testing, a latest-generation Dell PowerEdge R760 server powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors completed 20 data analytics workloads in up to 41 percent less time than older Dell PowerEdge R750 and PowerEdge R740xd servers.
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February 2023. Revised April 2023.
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