[1421] in SAPr3-news
Re: SAP benchmarks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lisa Roderick)
Tue May 21 18:57:15 1996
To: sapr3-news@MIT.EDU
Date: 9 May 1996 13:46:15 GMT
From: roderick@eps.enet.dec.com (Lisa Roderick)
In article <N.050296.183916.74@pcdda>, dacetis@distri.be says...
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>I am doing a survey on UNIX systems able to run the SAP modules.
>It's very difficult to find specific benchmark.
>TPC-C seemd too be the more appropriate till I've heard from the main UNIX
>hardware suppliers that "SAP Benchmarks" exists based on FI/MM/SD modules.
>But HOW to get that information ?
Hello Dominique,
Digital has several web sites with SAP information. Check out the SAP InfoCenter at Digital' web site:
http://www.digital.com/info/sap for the news on SAP product on Digital's Alpha platforms. We put
performance-related info at http://www.digital.com/info/performance. We use Alta Vista as our site
search engine, so searching for anything related to SAP is fast and comprehensive. For example, here's
an announcement of a recent SD maximum user benchmark on ADABAS:
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Hot News - Highest performance for SAP's R/3 SD benchmark
Digital Equipment and Software AG establish industry leading performance
standard for SAP's R/3 SD benchmark.
Maynard, U.S. and Darmstadt Germany, -- March 12, 1996 -- Digital Equipment
Corporation and Software AG today announced the best performance results
for SAP`s standard sales & distribution (SD) benchmark using Digital's
powerful 64-bit Alpha architecture and Software AG's high performance
relational Database ADABAS D. The benchmark achieved an average dialog
response time of 1.44 sec. A total of 1,700 SD benchmark users was
measured, performing 535,746 dialog steps per hour -- the largest ever
reached throughput for the benchmark. Running on Digital's AlphaServer 8400
5/300 system with the ADABAS D database, the R/3 results demonstrate again
that the 64-bit Alpha symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capability delivers
to customers better performance and affordability than that of any other
platform in SAP's widely accepted business application environment.
"The teaming of Software AG and Digital offers our customers a solution
that is powerful and comprehensive," said Werner Feld, Digital Global
Business Manager for Software AG. "The SD-benchmark results achieved by
ADABAS D are just outstanding and clearly demonstrate Software AG's
capability to offer best in class database performance for SAP R/3 on
Digital's Alpha platform. 1,44 sec response time for 1700 SD benchmark
users clearly proves that very large R/3 implementations can have excellent
performance."
Benchmark Configuration
A joint SAP/Digital/Software AG team measured the performance of the system
using the standard SAP benchmark of the R/3 Sales & Distribution (SD)
module at the Digital/SAP Technology Center in Viernheim, Germany. The
benchmark environment was based on Digital UNIX V3.2C and ADABAS D
V6.1.1.15 supporting SAP R/3 release 2.2F. This benchmark fully complies to
SAP's recently issued stringent benchmark regulations and has been audited
and certified by SAP.
The client/server configuration included seven 300MHz AlphaServer 8400
5/300 systems driven by the world's fastest and first BIPS (billion
instructions per second) microprocessor -- the Alpha 21164. The database
server was equipped with 12 CPUs (99 percent CPU utilization) and 4
gigabytes (GB) of main memory. Six application servers were used in total
(95 percent CPU utilization). Five served as dialog and update servers and
employed 12 CPUs with 4 GB of main memory each. One machine was used as the
enqueue and message server and employed 4 CPUs and 4 GB of main memory.
Total disk space layout was 480 GB. Further technical details can be
obtained from Digital or SAP AG.
Alpha's Performance Advantage
Recently Digital was awarded 11 AIM 1996 HOT IRON AWARDS at the February
1996 UniForum show. Demonstrating once again the powerful 64-Bit Alpha
architecture leadership for business-critical applications such as SAP R/3.
With more than 1,000 shipped high-end AlphaServer 8000 series systems,
Digital delivers the industry's highest RISC performance and best
price/performance for business-critical applications through a pricing
structure that is very aggressive when compared to competitive mainframe
offerings.
Only Digital is shipping the high-performance 64-bit servers, AlphaServer
systems, and a 64-bit operating system, Digital UNIX, which together make
Very Large Memory Technology (VLM64) possible. Digital's VLM64 technology
dramatically improves database and application performance by raising the
amount of information that can be stored in main memory. While 32-bit
systems are limited to less than 4 GByte of memory Digital`s 64-bit
architecture is not. Today Digital's AlphaServer 8400 systems can utilize
up to 14GB of data in main memory.
Software AG ADABAS D Advantage
Software AG's relational database for the open systems market is Adabas D.
It's market differentiation from other open systems RDBMS is based on ease
of use and ease of administration, reduced overall cost of ownership,
industry leading price-performance and high availability. Adabas D fully
supports Digital's VLM64 bit technology.
"We have always known about the superiority of ADABAS D. Alpha VLM64
combination in large enterprise environments, both for high-volume
transaction processing and for data warehouse solutions," says Karl-Heinz
Schwalme, Software AG's Vice President of ADABAS D line of business, "These
record-setting results clearly confirm this".
Software AG, Darmstadt (Germany) was founded in 1969. Today, it ranks among
the world's leading independent software vendors and service providers.
More than 5,000 enterprises in over 80 countries are Software AG customers.
Software AG is a member of international associations such as X/Open, the
Open Software Foundation (OSF), the Object Management Group (OMG) and the
Message-Oriented Middleware Association (MOMA).
--
Lisa Roderick
Applications Systems Engineering Performance Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
Nashua, NH
lisa.roderick@zko.mts.dec.com
