IBM ESERVER DELIVERS LEADING PERFORMANCE FOR SAP SOLUTIONS.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) has announced that the just-introduced IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. xSeries The renaming of IBM's Intel-based servers under the eServer brand. A Linux or Windows-based server is an xSeries eServer. Prices for the xSeries ranged from $10,000 to $50,000 in 2000, when the name change occurred. See IBM server series and Netfinity. [TM] 440 has achieved leadership performance in both eight-processor and four-processor Intel[R]-based server performance in the SAP[R] Sales and Distribution (SAP SD) two-tier Standard Application benchmark, Release 4.6C, beating their corresponding nearest competitor results by 36.5%(1) and 24.8%(2) respectively. The IBM x440 together with the x360 became the first servers using the new Intel Pentium 4 Xeon MP processors to attain SAP certification. The x440 features mainframe-inspired technologies such as self-healing capabilities and support for partitioning To divide a resource or application into smaller pieces. See partition, application partitioning and PDQ. for enterprise class performance. This SAP benchmark achievement is a testament to IBM Enterprise X-Architecture[TM] technology and all the capabilities delivered through the IBM eServer x440. The newly certified See certification. IBM eServer x440 results from SAP surpass all previously posted Intel-based SAP SD two-tier Standard Application results as detailed below -- demonstrating the scalability and performance advantages of the IBM Enterprise X-Architecture technology and IBM eServer xSeries 440. Based on the certified SAP SD two-tier Application Benchmark results to-date, the eight-processor xSeries 440 server's achievement of 520 SD benchmark users with 1.85 seconds average dialog response time, 158,000 dialog steps per hour (52,670 fully business processed order line items per hour) with 99% CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilization is the highest eight-processor result to-date. The four-processor IBM eServer xSeries 440 achieved a similar feat by attaining 312 SD benchmark users with 1.98 average dialog response time, 94,000 dialog steps per hour (31,330 fully business processed order line items per hour) with 97% CPU utilization. These benchmarks fully comply with the SAP Benchmark Council's issued regulations and have been audited and certified by SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. . More information is available under www.sap.com/benchmark. "The SAP benchmark validates groundbreaking technologies in the new IBM eServer," said Deepak Advani, vice president, IBM eServer xSeries. "The IBM Enterprise X-Architecture technology will bring new flexibility, reliability and performance to this crucial market." |
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