Data General Delivers Highest PeopleSoft Benchmark Performance On Windows NT.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1999-- Company achieves record PeopleSoft General Ledger General Ledger A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business. Notes: The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits. 7.5 benchmark using AViiON(R) AV 3704R Server with CLARiiON(R) FC5700 Full Fibre Channel Storage and Oracle8(TM) database Data General Corporation today announced that it achieved the highest recorded benchmark with PeopleSoft General Ledger 7.5 on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. using the Oracle8(TM) database. A Data General AViiON AViiON was a series of computers from Data General that were the company's main product from the late 1980s until the company's server products were discontinued in 2001. Earlier AViiON models used the Motorola 88000 CPU, but later models moved to an all-Intel solution when (R) 3704R NT server and CLARiiON full fibre FC 5700 storage system processed the entire general ledger of an extra large database, representing an organization with eight business units and 3,000,000 journal transactions, in 40.4 minutes, a rate of 4,451,699.00 journal lines per hour. This represents an increase of 63.8% over the highest previous benchmark. "This benchmark represents a dramatic price/performance improvement for PeopleSoft customers," said Marc Stillman, vice president of Peoplesoft's Alliances Solution Center. "It shows Data General and PeopleSoft's continued commitment to working with partners to continuously increase the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). of PeopleSoft deployments." "This impressive result gives us a clear price/performance advantage over our competition. The AViiON AV 3704 outperformed all of the Windows NT competition, including UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms on 3 out of 4 of the reported benchmark results," said Linda Mentzer, vice president of AViiON marketing at Data General. "We have worked closely with PeopleSoft and Oracle to guarantee this result. When combined with our service offerings and performance/uptime guarantees, we demonstrate a significant lead in cost effective processing of PeopleSoft workloads for customers of any size." About the Benchmark The benchmark study was conducted to determine whether the combination of PeopleSoft 7.5 General Ledger, Oracle8 database, and Data General AViiON server running Windows NT Server could efficiently process and scale over a range of processing volumes, especially extra-large databases with 3,000,000 active journal transactions. The objective was to execute and measure typical PeopleSoft General Ledger business processes with various data distribution and workload scenarios. The benchmark results underscore The underscore character (_) is often used to make file, field and variable names more readable when blank spaces are not allowed. For example, NOVEL_1A.DOC, FIRST_NAME and Start_Routine. (character) underscore - _, ASCII 95. that customers can get industry-leading performance from servers based on industry-standard processors when those systems have been engineered to optimize performance in actual working applications, not artificial CPU-centric benchmarks. The Benchmark Test Using the AV3704R server, the benchmark measured four General Ledger application business process runtimes running models representing small (50,000 journal lines and 1 business unit), medium (250,000 journal lines and 1 business unit), large (1,000,000 journal lines and 1 business unit), and extra large (3,000,000 journal lines and 8 business units) businesses. The small database was processed in 1.6 minutes, a rate of 1,872,659 journal lines per hour. The medium database was processed in 4.4 minutes, a rate of 3,434,066 journal lines per hour. The large database was processed in 14.1 minutes, a rate of 4,260,758 journal lines per hour. The extra large database was processed in 40.3 minutes, a rate of 4,451,699 journal lines per hour. Each test was run on an AViiON AV3704R configured with four Intel Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). Xeon processors at 500Mhz and 2MB Level-2 cache. The system was configured with 4GB ECC memory (Error-Correcting Code memory) A memory system that tests for and corrects errors automatically, very often without the operating system being aware of it, let alone the user. and four 4GB internal drives. Two CLARiiON FC5700 Fibre Channel storage subsystems The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. , each with forty 9GB disks, was used to store the Oracle8 database, Windows NT Server 4.0 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and PeopleSoft General Ledger 7.5 software. -0- DG AV3704 PeopleSoft General Ledger Benchmark Results(Runtimes in hrs) process small medium large xlarge business units 1 1 1 8 edit journal 0.0231 0.0575 0.1758 0.5156 post journal 0.0036 0.0153 0.0589 0.1583 Total hrs 0.0267 0.0728 0.2347 0.6739 Total min 1.602 4.368 14.082 40.434 ledger rows 1000000 10000000 50000000 80000000 journal transactions 50000 250000 1000000 3000000 Journal lines/hr 1872659 3434066 4260758 4451699 PeopleSoft Performance ToolKit Program The benchmark was conducted as part of PeopleSoft's Performance ToolKit Program that includes Data General and other hardware vendors. The Performance ToolKit Program is part of the PeopleSoft Alliance Solution Center, which incorporates lifecycle testing and tuning, a performance laboratory and showcase center, and performance toolkits with standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. benchmarks and performance models. The results of these benchmark studies are being used to further improve performance in future releases of PeopleSoft products. Data General's Performance Guarantee for PeopleSoft Users Data General offers an unmatched packaged-priced hardware and service configuration with benchmark performance guarantee program to users of PeopleSoft software. In accordance with these programs, Data General guarantees that its AViiON servers running PeopleSoft General Ledger will perform to the benchmarks just completed by the two companies. About Oracle Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. With annual revenues of more than $8.8 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , in more than 145 countries around the world. For more information about Oracle, please call 650/506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. ) http://www.oracle.com/. About Data General Data General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, is a major supplier of storage and enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. solutions for customers worldwide. The company's products include CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, high-end Windows NT and UNIX AViiON servers, and related software and services. The company reported fiscal 1998 revenues of $1.5 billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com. AViiON and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. PeopleSoft, the PeopleSoft logo, PeopleTools, PS/nVision, PeopleCode, PeopleBooks, and Red Pepper red pepper: see pepper. are registered trademarks, PeopleTalk and "We work in your world." are trademarks of PeopleSoft, Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle8 is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. All other brand and product names appearing in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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