RE: Processor speed

[Eric Kempter <noerick.norcal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How many end-users were on each system?  One?  Better yet, how many 
transactions were going through each system?  My guess would be that as the 
number of transactions increases on the NT the performance will degrade 
while the performance on the AS/400 would improve.  Let's put 100,000 
transactions per minute on each system and see which one handles the load 
better.


On Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:18 AM, Dave_Dahlstrom@triangle-group.com 
[SMTP:Dave_Dahlstrom@triangle-group.com] wrote:
|
| I agree the AS/400 will handle all types of applications,  but to the 
detriment
| of the end user.  We have benchmarked our own Domino Application on the 
AS/400
| against a Dual 500Mhz processor NT machine,  We ran through from a 1 way 
170
| DSD, a 2 way 170, a 4 way 720, and a 12 way LPAR 740,  this allowed 
allocation
| of a single processor as and when we wanted to increase the performance. 
  It
| was a direct representation that when we reached 4 processors (of 262Mhz) 
we
| matched the performance of the NT machine from both the Server 
Performance and
| the End User response time,  this unfortunately had a cost difference of 
around,
| well lets say if I was a business man and not a techie and you were 
selling me
| an AS/400 to run my applications,  I would tell you to stop taking the 
drugs.
|
| I also agree that making these comparisons is futile, as we all know that 
PC
| architecture is not the platform to be running your business on,  its 
just the
| fact that these new and upcoming applications(Websphere, JAVA, Domino, 
ERP)  on
| the 400 started from that arena and carry the legacy of it.
|
| When the Two Worlds Meet (Processor speeds and the AS/400(plus a 
competitive
| price)),  You will have a machine that can take on the World.
|
|
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