The SAP standard 4.0 B application benchmark performed on November 19, 1999, by IBM in Poughkeepsie, USA, was certified on December 3, 1999 with the following data:

Number of benchmark users: 1,708 SD (Sales & Distribution)

Average dialog response time: 1.98 seconds

Throughput: 8,550 SAPS (513,000 dialog steps/h)

Equivalent to (line items / hour): 171,000 processed order line items

Average DB request time (seconds): 0.109 (dialog) / 0.192 (update)

CPU utilization central server: 99%

Operating System central server: AIX 4.3.3

RDBMS: DB UDB V6.1

R/3 Release: 4.0 B

Total disk space: 400 GB

Configuration:

1 Central Server: IBM RS/6000 Enterprise Server, 24-processors SMP, RS64-III 450 MHz, 8 MB Second Level Cache, 64 GB main memory