Accrue Sets New Scalability Standard for Internet Analytics on Sun Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2001 Accrue Software, Inc. set a new scalability standard for Internet analytics through comprehensive performance testing Performance Testing covers a broad range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: Rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics. of its Accrue G2 solution on systems from Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. During the testing, Accrue G2 easily scaled to process 1.5 billion Internet events per day, the equivalent of more than 7.5 terabytes of data. All tests used actual customer data to simulate a high-volume, multi-site Internet environment. The comprehensive testing comprised four phases of processing from initial loading of raw data to full availability of interactive reports and ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. analysis. Complete processing time ranged from two hours for 73 million events to 14 hours for 1.5 billion events, demonstrating Accrue's ability to quickly deliver full analytics capabilities within 24 hours for highly complex, dynamic Internet initiatives. In addition to surpassing any published scalability standards for volume for Internet analytics solutions, Accrue G2 also demonstrated the ability to provide rapid response to hundreds of concurrent users' queries for reports and ad hoc analysis. During testing, Accrue G2 scaled to support 400 concurrent users performing queries against the system while continuing to provide average response times below 40 seconds. These performance tests clearly indicated that Accrue G2 can effectively meet the changing needs of companies as they integrate their Internet initiatives. Accrue conducted the performance testing at Sun's Enterprise Technology Center in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , CA, using a single Sun Enterprise (TM) 6500 server with multiple 400 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. UltraSPARC (TM) II processors running the Solaris (TM) Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . The tests simulated a variety of computing environments, employing from six to 29 CPUs, to demonstrate near linear scaling. Note to Editors: Accrue, Accrue Insight, Hit List, and Pilot Software are trademarks of Accrue Software, Inc. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Enterprise, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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