Oracle Sets New World Record Result for a Two-Processor Server Running SAP ERP 6.0,...

Oracle Sets New World Record Result for a Two-Processor Server Running SAP ERP
6.0, Enhancement Pack 4 with the Two-Tier SAP Sales and Distribution Standard
Application Benchmark

Oracle(R) Database on Sun Fire Server Delivers Outstanding Performance

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

News Facts
-- Today, Oracle announced a world record result on the two-tier SAP(R)
Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark for a
two-processor server running the SAP ERP 6.0, Enhancement Pack 4
(Unicode) (1).
-- On a system configuration comprised of a Sun Fire(TM) X4270 server
equipped with two new Intel(R) Xeon(R) x5570, quad-core (2 processor/8
cores/16 threads) 2.93 GHz processors, Oracle Database running on the
Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System achieved 3,700 SAP SD Benchmark users.

-- 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 continues to deliver world-record results in both the
two-tier SAP SD and SAP SD-Parallel Standard Application
benchmarks," (2,3) said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president,
Systems Technology, Oracle. "The latest two-tier SAP SD benchmark
result demonstrates the undeniable speed and scalability of Oracle
Database."

Supporting Resources
-- Oracle Benchmarks

-- Overview of Oracle Database

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As of March 30, 2009. Source: SAP, www.sap.com/benchmark.

(1) The SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark
performed on March 18, 2009 by Sun Microsystems in Burlington, MA, USA, has
been certified with the following data: Number of SAP SD benchmark users:
3,700. Average dialog response time: 0.94 seconds. Fully processed order
line items/hour: 406,000. Dialog steps/hour: 1,218,000. SAPS: 20,300
Average database request time (dialog/update): 0.017 sec / 0.015 sec CPU
utilization of central server: 99%. Operating system, central server: Solaris
10. RDBMS: Oracle 10g. SAP Business Suite software: SAP ERP 6.0, Enhancement
Pack 4 (Unicode). Configuration: Central server: Sun Fire X4270, 2 processors
/ 8 cores / 16 threads, Intel Xeon Processor X5570, 2.93 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache
and 256 KB L2 cache per core 8 MB L3 cache per processor, 48 GB main memory.
Certification Number: 2009005.

(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

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