The SAP standard application benchmark performed by BULL on June 14, 1998, in France was certified on June 17, 1999 with the following data:

Number of users and component: 2,456 SD

Average dialog response time: 1.99 seconds

Throughput / hour: 12,280 SAPS (737,000 dialog steps/hour )

Equivalent to (order lines / hour): 246,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.275 (dialog) / 0.652 (update)

CPU utilization of database servers: 99%

CPU utilization of application servers: 67% (Dia:68%, Upd: 73%, Msg/Enq: 23%)

Operating System database server: Windows NT 4.0 EE

Operating System application servers: Windows NT 4.0

RDBMS: SQL Server 7.0

R/3 Release: 4.0B

Total disk space: 294 GB

Configuration:

Database Servers:

1 Database Server: BULL Express 5800 MH4500, 4 processors Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz,

1 MB L2 cache, 4 GB main memory

Application Servers (Total: 21 servers):

16 Dialog: BULL Express 5800 MH4500, 4 processors Pentium II Xeon 450 MHz,

1 MB L2 cache, 1 GB main memory

4 Update: BULL Express 5800 MH4500, 4 processors Pentium II Xeon 450 MHz,

1 MB L2 cache, 1 GB main memory

1 Msg./Enq.: BULL Express 5800 MH4500, 4 processors Pentium II Xeon 450 MHz,

1 MB L2 cache, 1 GB main memory