The SAP standard application benchmark performed on June 24, 1999, by IBM in Raleigh, NC, USA, was certified on June 29, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 3,028 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.95 seconds

Throughput: 15,220 SAPS (913,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 304,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.159 (dialog) / 0.363 (update)

CPU utilization database server: 98%

CPU utilization application servers: 61% (dia: 64%, upd: 61%, msg/enq: 29%)

Operating System all servers: Windows NT 4.0

RDBMS: DB2 UDB V6.1

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 792 GB

Configuration:

1 Database Server: IBM Netfinity 7000 M10, 4-processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory

21 Application Servers:

16 Dialog servers: IBM Netfinity 7000 M10, 4-processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 2 GB main memory

4 Update servers: IBM Netfinity 7000 M10, 4-processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 2 GB main memory

1 Msg/Enqueue: IBM Netfinity 7000 M10, 4-processors SMP, Pentium Pro 200 MHz, 1 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory