RE: iSeries V5R1 Benchmarks - Wow

[David Gibbs <dgibbs@xxxxxxx>]

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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