Bull NovaScale® 5080 server sets new performance levels on
Two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark on an 8-processor platform
Running Microsoft® Windows®
Louveciennes,
April
21, 2004 -
Bull has established a new performance level for the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark on an 8-processor Intel® Itanium® 2-based platform under the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. Bull's result reached 1,300 simultaneous SAP SD Benchmark users.
As of March 2nd, 2004, when the benchmark was certified, the Bull NovaScale® 5080 server performed significantly better than any other server of 8 processors running on the Microsoft® Windows® operating system.
The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark provides basic sizing recommendations to customers and places substantial load upon a system during the testing of new hardware, system software components, and relational database management systems (RDBM).
This new result provides further proof of Bull NovaScale® 5080 performance excellence, as well as that of Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 Database in demonstrating its overall capabilities in supporting large applications such as the SAP R/3® software solution.
Technical Details
The benchmark was performed on a Bull NovaScale® 5080 server, equipped with eight 1.5 GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 processors with 32KB Level one cache, 32 GB of main memory and 576 GB of disk running both Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 (64-bit) Enterprise Edition and Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 (64-bit) database.
This benchmark result has been certified by SAP AG under certification number 2004014. The benchmark was conducted on SAP R/3 Enterprise Release 4.7.
Running the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark, Bull achieved the results of 1,300 concurrent SAP SD Benchmark users, 6,580 SAPS, 395,000 dialog steps per hour, an average dialog response time of 1.84 and 131,670 fully processed order line items per hour. More information on the benchmark is available at http://ww.sap.com/benchmark.
Long-Time Partnership
Bull has been an SAP Global Technology Partner since 1991. Bull operates Competence Centres for SAP in Walldorf, SAP headquarters in Germany; in Echirolles; and in Les Clayes sous Bois, France. These Centres are dedicated to sizing, tuning and also provide advisory services in architecture for customers seeking for peak performance of their SAP solutions.
Further information on this benchmark can be obtained at http://ww.sap.com/benchmark.
SAP, R/3 and all other SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries around the world.
Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks of Intel Corp. [Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. All other product and company names listed herein are the property of their respective owners.
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