Oracle Sets New World Record on the SAP(R) Two-Tier Sales and Distribution Standard...

Oracle Sets New World Record on the SAP(R) Two-Tier Sales and Distribution
Standard Application Benchmark
Oracle(R) Database on Sun SPARC Enterprise Server based on the Quad-Core
SPARC64 VII Processor Delivers Record-Breaking Result

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
-- Continuing to demonstrate the superior performance and scalability
leadership of Oracle(R) Database, Oracle today announced a world record result
on the two-tier SAP(R) Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application
Benchmark running the SAP ERP application Release 6.0.(1)
-- On a system configuration comprised of Sun(TM) SPARC(R) Enterprise
M9000 server equipped with quad-core SPARC64(TM) VII 2.52 GHz 64 processors,
256 cores, 512 threads, and Sun StorageTek(TM) 6140 arrays, Oracle Database
running on the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS), achieved 39,100 SAP SD
Benchmark users.
-- With this result, Oracle holds the world records for both the two-tier
SAP SD and SAP SD-Parallel(2) Standard Application Benchmarks.
-- 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
"Oracle Database is the industry's leading database, offering customers
the superior speed, availability and scalability they need to support their
businesses," said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology,
Oracle. "This world-record result further demonstrates that Oracle Database
delivers unparalleled performance to support business-critical enterprise
applications."

Supporting Resources

Releases
Oracle Achieves World Record Result on the SAP(R) SD-Parallel Standard
Application Benchmark
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2008_mar/sap-sd-ibmp570.html
Oracle(R) Database with Oracle Real Application Clusters on IBM System p
570 with POWER6 Processors Achieves World Record Benchmark Results
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_nov/sap-sd-parallel-ow.html
Oracle Sets New World Records for 4-Core and 8-Core Performance on
Two-Tier SAP SD Benchmark
http://tinyurl.com/6s7tcx
Oracle Sets New World Record on Two-Tier SAP SD Benchmark
http://tinyurl.com/6pnx2q
Related Resources
Oracle Benchmarks
http://www.oracle.com/solutions/performance_scalability/index.html

Overview of Oracle Database http://www.oracle.com/database

About SAP Standard Application Benchmarks
SAP Standard Application Benchmarks were developed by SAP AG to provide
comparative load analysis of SAP solutions. For more details see
http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
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As of July 14, 2008. Source: SAP, http://www.sap.com/benchmark

(1) 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.
(2) 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.
SOURCE Oracle

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