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You took the words right out of my mouth, David.

Seriously, how many companies on this planet need to run 100,000+ users on a
single Domino server? Let's rank systems that handle 25 -> 500 users, and
see what the price/performance ratio is compared to the competition.


John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gibbs" <dgibbs@mks.com>
To: "'Midrange Mailing List'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Cc: "'Dan Hayden'" <dlhayde@us.ibm.com>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:17
Subject: RE: iSeries V5R1 Benchmarks - Wow


> Well, that's all well and good... but I'd really like to see a SINGLE or
> DUAL processor iSeries system get ranked ... and ranked well.
>
> How many customers are really going to have a 24 way system?
>
> david
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Hayden [mailto:dlhayde@us.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 7:53 AM
> > To: AS400
> > Subject: iSeries V5R1 Benchmarks - Wow
> >
> >
> > >From the performance guru in Rochester:
> >
> > Editorial:
> > Well, the waiting is over, two key public Java server-side benchmark
> > results are posted at the respective benchmark organization web sites
> > and/or the IBM performance press release has been posted to a
> > public web
> > site.  As I discussed in last month's newsletter the new Sun
> > Microsystems
> > SunFire Server performance claims have been thoroughly
> > doused.  iSeries
> > 24-way processor generated 132,332 transactions/second at a maximum
> > response time of 0.18 seconds in the SPECjBB200 benchmark.  Clearly
> > exceeding SunFire's 24-way results of only 109,146 trans/sec
> > with maximum
> > response times of up to 2.8 seconds.  See the details for yourself by
> > reviewing the detail vendor reports at the SPEC Organization web site.
> > http://www.spec.org  or http://www.ideasinternational.com
> >
> > Additionally, iSeries released new VolanoMark results
> > (132,322 ops/second)
> > demonstrating shared leadership (with pSeries at 133,251 messages/sec)
> > which far surpasse Sun's E6500 result of 25,131 msg/sec.  Sun has not
> > published any new VolanoMark results with their new SunFire.
> > When coupled
> > with new TRADE2 benchmark results (an IBM sponsored Java and WebSphere
> > driven brokerage application benchmark), iSeries showed a 48-65%
> > improvement with V5R1.
> > The Java performance picture becomes very clear that iSeries
> > performs very
> > well with Java and clearly outclasses Sun.
> >
> > The other exciting benchmark news is Domino NotesBench R5 benchmark
> > results.  iSeries was the first to break the 10,000 mail user barrier
> > several years ago and is now the first to break the 100,000 mail user
> > barrier.  iSeries continues to demonstrate it's industry
> > leading position
> > in this benchmark for the last 3 years, iSeries published a
> > new 100,500 R5
> > Mail User result on 4/26.  Even more interesting was that
> > iSeries response
> > times continue to improve and are now reported at 0.067
> > seconds, which no
> > other Domino platform has been able to match.
> >
> > IBM and JD Edwards have jointly announced a new record
> > OneWorld Xe "high
> > watermark" benchmark.  iSeries was able to support 6,020 users while
> > delivering 1.16 second response times.  It clearly showed
> > iSeries as the
> > most scalable platform for OneWorld Xe by supporting over 2X
> > more users
> > than the nearest competitive platform and the application runs in a
> > WebSphere Advance Edition 3.5 environment.  Additionally, the
> > joint press
> > release also discusses how Shell Canada was able to add users while
> > reducing their costs.
> >
> > Finally, I would like to thank Intentia for sharing with me
> > the results of
> > their latest performance testing with V5R1 in the IBM
> > Benchmark center.
> > Later next week they plan on having a press release documenting their
> > Movex?NextGen results that have improved to over 1.16 million
> > order lines
> > per hour with V5R1.  Intentia applications are Java
> > server-side driven by
> > iSeries platforms.
> >
> > While some benchmark results may seem a little academic, the
> > JD Edwards and
> > Intentia performance measurements prove iSeries can deliver industry
> > leading
> > performance in real world applications being delivered by IBM Business
> > Partners.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan
> >
> > Dan Hayden
> >       812
> > 465-0587
> > IBM iSeries400 Server Specialist                    812 465-0504 (Fax)
> > 25 NW Riverside Drive
> > Evansville, IN  47708
> >


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