The SAP standard application benchmark performed on June 20, 1998, by Compaq in Houston, TX, USA was certified on June 29, 1998 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 2,288 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.99 seconds

Throughput: 11,450 SAPS (687,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 229,000 fully processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.470 (dialog) / 0.820 (update)

CPU utilization database server: 98%

CPU utilization application servers: 70% (dia: 78%, upd: 44%, msg/enq: 31%)

Operating System (database server): Windows NT 4.0 SP3

Operating System (application serv.): Windows NT 4.0 SP3

RDBMS: SQL Server 7.0

R/3 Release: 3.1 H

Total disk space: 129 GB

Configuration:

1 Database Server: Compaq ProLiant 7000 6/400-1M, 4 processors SMP, Pentium II Xeon 400 MHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 4 GB main memory

Application Servers (Total: 21 servers):

All application server are Compaq ProLiant 4-processor with 1 MB L2 cache

16 Dialog Server: Model 5500R 6/200, Pentium Pro 200 MHz, 1 GB memory

4 Update Server: Model, 7000 6/400-1M, Pentium II Xeon 400 MHz, 1 GB memory

1 Msg/Enq Serv.: Model 5500R 6/200, Pentium Pro 200 MHz, 1 GB memory