RE: iSeries V5R1 Benchmarks - Wow

Agreed.  That's like saying My Acura NSX will smoke your Porsche 911.  It
will, but you're talking to folks who drive Integras.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gibbs [mailto:dgibbs@mks.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:18 AM
> To: 'Midrange Mailing List'
> Cc: 'Dan Hayden'
> 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                                                    
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> > 465-0587
> > IBM iSeries400 Server Specialist                    812 
> 465-0504 (Fax)
> > 25 NW Riverside Drive
> > Evansville, IN  47708
> > 
> > 
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