Enterprise software vendor JD Edwards and Sun Microsystems have announced the highest concurrent user record for OneWorld Xe running on Sun Fire servers and Sun StorEdge arrays. The benchmark supported 8 969 concurrent HTML clients -- demonstrating new levels of performance and scalability for OneWorld. These results achieved nearly 1.5 times the number of users enabled on competitive systems.
The benchmark reaffirms that OneWorld collaborative commerce software can scale into high-volume enterprise environments. A variety of user environments were simulated with up to 9 000 users running 16 different business applications and a workload of 50% distribution, 25% manufacturing and 25% financials. The average response time across all applications and users was 1.46 seconds, 27% faster than the industry standard of 2.0 seconds.
Highlights of the OneWorld on Sun benchmark include:
* 8 969 concurrent users
* 179 520 sales order line items per hour
* 179 419 purchase order line items per hour
* 79.7% CPU utilisation
* 1.46-second user response time (industry standard: 2.0 seconds).
The performance gains can be attributed to optimisation of the HTML and Web solution components of OneWorld Xe SP17 and higher. In addition, the Sun Fire architecture riding on the foundation of the UltraSPARC III Sun Fire 6800 server running the Solaris Operating Environment, included 24 UltraSPARC III 750MHz processors and 48GB of memory.
The UltraSPARC III processor demonstrated its ability to deliver the performance required for OneWorld`s collaborative, enterprise-class applications. The Sun Fire 6800 server`s multiple Dynamic System Domains deliver increased performance and efficient resource distribution giving customers better system flexibility. The Sun StorEdge T3 Array for the Enterprise with its redundant 8 port Fibre Channel (FC) Switch provided the high data throughput rates, which prevented I/O bottlenecks.
Commented Dave Macdonald, national pre-sales manager at JD Edwards South Africa: "This benchmark has proven that OneWorld scales to levels capable of supporting very large organisations. The architecture used was chosen to showcase the virtues of JD Edwards` Configurable Network Computing in a Sun/Solaris environment and to demonstrate the ease of horizontal scaling in the enterprise by adding additional application servers. The equipment for this benchmark was chosen to scale OneWorld to user levels as high as15 000. The available capacity of the benchmark environment, combined with servers that were never brought on line, suggests that this goal was within reach. Ultimately the limiting factor was the benchmark tool used. In the country which delivered the world`s first Sun/JD Edwards` OneWorld site, we`re impressed."
"What organisations want is performance," comments Stefano Mattiello, MD of Sun Microsystems SA. "They need to be assured of the highest standards of RAS - reliability, availability and serviceability. Businesses need to know the system will always perform at the specified rate and that high performance is not just a one-off, but is consistent. Availability today must be better that 99.999% and the system must be serviceable, with developments such as upgrades for additional users being instituted without bringing the system down. This benchmark highlights our ability to meet these demands."
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