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Wed, July 22, 2009
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Oracle Corporation: Oracle Sets New World Record Four-Processor Server Result on the SAP(R) Two-Tier Sales and Distribution Sta
REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - July 21, 2009) -
News Facts
- Showcasing the extreme performance and scalability of [ Oracle® Database ], Oracle (
NASDAQ : [ ORCL ]) today announced a world record four-processor result on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP Enhancement Pack 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode).(1) - On a system configuration comprised of a Sun SPARC Enterprise® T5440 server equipped with four 1.6 GHz Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, Oracle Database running on the Solaris™ 10 Operating System achieved 4,720 SAP SD Benchmark users.
- In addition to this world record result, Oracle also holds world records on the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark(2) and the SAP SD-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark.(3)
- The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark measures the system performance to process dialog steps and order line item postings per hour for SAP solution-based transactions. A transaction consists of a full business process that captures activities from the full order processing cycle from order creation to delivery to invoicing.
Supporting Quote
- "Today's dynamic enterprises need a high-performance, scalable and reliable Database infrastructure that allows their critical applications to move with the speed of their business," said Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President, Systems Technology, Oracle. "In test after test, Oracle Database continues to prove its undeniable performance leadership. The latest achievement with Sun CMT hardware adds to a long list of outstanding Oracle results on the SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark."
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As of July 21, 2009. Source: SAP, [ www.sap.com/benchmark ]. Results of the SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark are as follows:
(1) The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark performed on June 22, 2009 by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu in Walldorf Germany, has been certified with the following data: 4,720 SAP SD Benchmark users, 0.97 seconds average dialog response time, 516,670 fully processed order line items/hour, 1,550,000 dialog steps/hour, 35,830 SAPS, 0.110 sec/0.169 sec average database request time (dialog/update), 96 percent CPU utilization of central server. Server configuration: SPARC Enterprise T5540; 4 processors/32 cores/256 threads; Solaris 10 operating system, central server; Oracle 10g RDBMS; SAP enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode). The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at [ http://www.sap.com/benchmark ].
(2) The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark performed on June 28, 2008 by Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu has been certified with the following data: 39,100 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.94 seconds average dialog response time, 3,931,330 fully processed order line items per hour, 11,794,000 dialog steps per hour, 196,570 SAPS. Server configuration: SPARC Enterprise Server M9000, 64 processors/256 cores/512 threads, SPARC 64 VII, 2.52 GHZ, 64 KB (D) + 64 KB (1) L1 cache per core, 6 MB L2 cache per processor, 1024 GB main memory, running Solaris 10, Oracle Database 10g and SAP ERP 6.0. Certification number 2008042.
(3) The SAP SD-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark performed on November 26, 2007 by IBM in Beaverton, OR, USA has been certified with the following data: 37,040 SAP SD-Parallel Benchmark users, 1.86 seconds average dialog response time, 3,749,000 fully processed order line items per hour, 11,247,000 dialog steps per hour, 187,450 SAPS. Server configuration: IBM System p 570, 8 processors/16 cores/32 threads, POWER6, 4.7 GHz, 128 KB L1 cache and 4 MB L2 cache per core, 32 MB L3 cache per processor, 128 GM main memory, running AIX 5L version 5.3, Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters and SAP ERP 6.0. Certification number 2008013.