Fwd: iSeries V5R1 Benchmarks - Wow -- MIDRANGE-L

I guess the official date to share stuff with the news media has arrived.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

Subject: iSeries V5R1 Benchmarks - Wow
From: "Dan Hayden" <dlhayde@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 07:52:50 -0500
Importance: Normal

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

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