The SAP standard application benchmark performed on February 4, 1998, by SNI in Augsburg, Germany, was certified on February 10, 1998 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 1,026 SD

Average dialog response time: 1.76 seconds

Throughput: 5,233 SAPS (314,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 105,000 fully processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.169 (dialog) / 0.541 (update)

CPU utilization database server: 97%

CPU utilization application servers: 57% (dia: 63%, upd: 55%, msg/enq:12%)

Operating System (database server): Windows NT 4.0

Operating System (application serv.): Windows NT 4.0

RDBMS: Oracle 7.3

R/3 Release: 3.1 H

Total disk space: 404 GB

Configuration:

1 Database Server: SNI Primergy Model 760, 4 processors SMP, Pentium Pro 200 MHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 3.5 GB main memory

Application Servers (Total: 13 servers):

All application server are SNI Primergy Model 560, Pentium Pro 200 MHz

9 Dialog Server: Primergy, 4-proc. SMP, 512 KB L2 cache, 512 MB memory

3 Update Server: Primergy, 4-proc. SMP, 512 KB L2 cache, 512 MB memory

1 Msg/Enq Serv.: Primergy, 4-proc. SMP, 512 KB L2 cache, 512 MB memory