The SAP standard application benchmark performed on October 31, 1999, by IBM in Raleigh, NC, USA, was certified on November 4, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 4,704 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.96 seconds

Throughput: 23,600 SAPS (1,416,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 472,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.096 (dialog) / 0.349 (update)

CPU utilization database server: 95%

CPU utilization application servers: 61% (dia: 65%, upd: 49%, msg/enq: 25%)

Operating System all servers: Windows NT 4.0

RDBMS: DB2 UDB V6.1

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 601 GB

Configuration:

1 Database Server: IBM Netfinity 8500 R, 8-processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 4 GB main memory

29 Application Servers:

24 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 8500 R, 8-processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz, 2 MB Second Level Cache, 2 GB main memory

1 Msg/Enqueue: IBM Netfinity 5500 M10, 4-processors SMP, Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz, 1 MB Second Level Cache, 2 GB main memory