Unisys ES7000 Sets World Record for Windows-Based mySAP.com Performance

Business Wire, Feb 26, 2001

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001

First industry-standard performance test for Windows-based server

with more than eight processors shows Unisys ES7000, running Windows

2000 Datacenter Server and SQL Server 2000, passing 10,000 SAP SD

benchmark user milestone on Windows

Intel Developer Forum, Delivering a level of performance previously achievable only on costlier mainframes and large UNIX/RISC-based systems, the Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 supported the greatest number of mySAP.com Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark users ever in a Windows environment, Unisys said today.

The test was the world's first industry-standard benchmark of application performance and scalability in a Windows-based environment on a server with more than eight processors.

The test simulated a workload of 10,400 SD benchmark users with an average dialog response time of 1.83 seconds, topping the previous SAP high-water benchmark for a three-tiered Windows-based configuration. This is equivalent to processing 1,055,330 line items per hour.

The results were derived using the SAP Standard Application Benchmark methodology, an industry-standard method of measuring server and application performance. The test simulates the maximum number of concurrent users supported by a system within acceptable response times.

"Large enterprises that rely on mySAP.com to run their operations now have a high-performance alternative to expensive UNIX/RISC-based platforms," said Peter Samson, vice president and general manager, Technology Sales Development, Unisys Systems and Technology. "The benchmark shows that the superior economics of e-business computing offered by the Unisys ES7000, Microsoft Windows and Intel technology apply even when handling the very large centralized databases and high transaction volumes typically encountered in the mySAP.com environment."

The Unisys ES7000 used as the database server in the benchmark test was configured with 16 700-MHz Intel Pentium III Xeon processors, 8 Gbytes of memory and 16 Mbytes of level three cache. The server ran Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition database and SAP R/3 Release 4.6C. CPU utilization was 99 percent.

Forty-nine Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES5085s, each with eight 700-MHz Intel Pentium III Xeon processors and 4 Gbytes of memory, were also used in the test. CPU utilization on the application servers was 62 percent. Total disk space used was 880 Gbytes.

The Unisys test configuration was connected over a Giganet cLAN VI network using cLAN1000 host bus adapters and cLAN5000 8-port cluster switches. Giganet cLAN network supports the Virtual Interface (VI) Architecture, which enables application servers to communicate with database servers at very high speeds with ultra-low latency.

The benchmark was conducted at the Unisys performance laboratory in Mission Viejo, CA and has been certified by SAP AG. More information on the benchmark is available upon request from Unisys and SAP.

"This result shows that with the Unisys ES7000, Windows 2000 Datacenter server and SQL Server 2000, everything needed to meet the requirements of the most demanding SAP installations is in place and proven," said Gordon Mangione, vice president for SQL Server at Microsoft Corp. "It offers enterprises further assurance that they no longer have to pay the UNIX premium for high-performance SAP solutions or be locked into proprietary platform technology."

The Unisys ES7000: Powered by CMP

The Unisys ES7000 provides an array of computing capabilities required for enterprise-class e-business computing and well known to users of large-scale computers, but unprecedented in computing environments using Microsoft and Intel technology. Designed for the power of future Intel Itanium processors, the ES7000 is based on Unisys revolutionary Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture.

A de-facto-standard architecture for large-scale Microsoft- and Intel-based servers, CMP technology is also sold by Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi and ICL. The ES7000 accommodates up to 32 Intel Pentium III Xeon processors, which can be field-upgraded to Intel Itanium processors when that technology becomes available or combined with Itanium processors in the same server.

These advantages enable the ES7000 to match the performance of UNIX systems in enterprise-class e-business and other critical applications at a fraction of the price.

About Unisys

Unisys is an e-business solutions company whose 37,000 employees help customers in 100 countries apply information technology to seize opportunities and overcome challenges of the Internet economy. Unisys people integrate and deliver the solutions, services, platforms and network infrastructure required by business and government to transform their organizations for success in this new era.

The company offers a rich portfolio of Unisys e-@ction Solutions for e-business based on its expertise in vertical industry solutions, network services, outsourcing, systems integration and multivendor support, coupled with enterprise-class server and related technologies.