DB2 Universal Database Establishes Performance Records on IBM's RS/6000 Servers.Business/Technology Editors SOMERS, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2000 IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) today announced that its DB2 Universal Database running on IBM's latest RS/6000 servers has achieved record-breaking benchmark performance on a number of leading ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. solutions. In separate certified See certification. Baan tests, DB2 set record-breaking benchmark results on both RS/6000 F80 and S80 models. Lawson Software's enterprise e-business solutions showed extremely high data throughput The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together. 1. and transaction performance running with DB2 Universal Database on the copper-based RS/6000 model M80 and S80. These results demonstrate that DB2 offers optimum scalable performance to customers. In tests with DB2 Universal Database running Baan software on RS/6000 S (RISC System/6000) The earlier generation and name of IBM's pSeries and p5 families of computation-intensive (scientific) workstations and servers. Introduced in 1990, the RS/6000 evolved into the pSeries in 2000 and the p5 in 2004. 80 servers in 2-tier and 3-tier environments, DB2 was able to achieve results of 8750 and 17500 BRUs (Baan Reference Users) respectively. Both results set new world records for the respective configurations, and in the case of the 2-tier result a performance improvement of 31% over an Oracle database product. In tests with DB2 Universal Database running Baan software on an RS/6000 F80 server in host mode, DB2 was able to achieve 2345 BRUs (Baan Reference Users). This result was 12% faster than results achieved by Oracle, the nearest competitive database product. The Lawson benchmarks simulated payroll production and accounts payable performance. The test scenarios A set of test cases that ensure that the business process flows are tested from end to end. They may be independent tests or a series of tests that follow each other, each dependent on the output of the previous one. The terms "test scenario" and "test case" are often used synonymously. represented typical payroll and accounts payable processing for large enterprises and fast-growth mid-size companies. Each scenario was tested with DB2 Universal Database on both the S80 with 24 processors and the M80 with 8 processors. Results achieved were the highest ever attained compared to similar testing performed on a comparable configuration. For more information, visit http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/db2/benchmarks/rs6000.html |
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