Sun Microsystems, today claimed another victory in scalable enterprise computing, announcing that it broke two world records for performance in recent benchmark tests of Baan Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software applications. The tests were completed on a Sun Enterprise 10000 server, commonly known as Starfire, and a Sun StorEdge A5200 disk array and marked the third year in a row that the Sun platform led its competitors in performance of mission-critical Baan applications.
The industry standard Baan IV benchmark test quantifies the number of end-users that can be simultaneously supported in the ERP application in a etric known as Baan Reference Users (BRUs), which Baan uses to size and configure applications for real-world customers. Sun Microsystems ran the tests in both host mode and client/server mode, since Baan ERP applications are frequently run in both types of computing environments.
The host mode benchmark was run on a single 36-CPU Starfire server with Oracle8i v8.0.5 software and achieved a score of 5,797 BRUs, breaking the world record of 3,641 BRUs, set by Sun in 1998. For the client/server version of the Baan benchmark test, Sun used a 64-CPU Starfire server with Oracle8i V8.1.5.2 software and one Starfire server for the application, which ran at 98 percent utilization for the 64 CPUs. These test results also set a new world record, with a result of 10,721 BRUs. Both benchmarks were performed on systems configured with VeritasVolume Manager and PurePerformix 3.2..3 software running on Sun`s Solaris 7 Operating Environment.
"Nothing else comes close to reaching these single-system high notes," said Shahin Khan, director of marketing for Sun`s Data Center and High Performance Computing Products Group. "Part of what separates the Starfire from the pack are its impressive scalability and headroom. In this machine, we`ve got a long, successful history of 64-CPU SMP scalability that our competitors can only fantasize about. Incomparable efficiency running top-flight ERP applications on a grand scale, as illustrated here with Baan, is one way the Starfire`s scalability manifests itself."
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