The SAP standard application benchmark performed by Compaq on June 19, 1999, in Houston, TX, USA, was certified on June 22, 1999 with the following data:

Number of users and component: 4,512 SD

Average dialog response time: 1.99 seconds

Throughput / hour: 22,570 SAPS (1,354,000 dialog steps/hour )

Equivalent to (order lines / hour): 451,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.166 (dialog) / 0.372 (update)

CPU utilization of database servers: 98%

CPU utilization of application servers: 54% (Dia: 56%, Upd: 53%, Msg/Enq: 28%)

Operating System all servers: Windows NT 4.0 EE

RDBMS: SQL Server 7.0

R/3 Release: 4.0B

Total disk space: 153 GB

Configuration:

Database Servers:

1 Database Server: ProLiant 8000 6/550-2M, 8-processors Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz,

2 MB L2 cache, 4 GB main memory

Application Servers (Total: 21 servers):

12 Dialog: ProLiant 8500 6/550-2M, 8-processors Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz,

2 MB L2 cache, 2 GB main memory

4 Dialog: ProLiant 8000 6/550-2M, 8-processors Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz,

2 MB L2 cache, 2 GB main memory

4 Update: ProLiant 8500 6/550-2M, 8-processors Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz,

2 MB L2 cache, 2 GB main memory

1 Msg./Enq.: ProLiant 7000 6/550-2M, 4 processors Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz,

2 MB L2 cache, 1 GB main memory