Results of the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and X6270 blade servers are available. This benchmarking report is particularly significant, writes Giri Mandalika in his Scratchpad blog, because the workload has both online transactions and batch processes and, furthermore, it is the first time Sun has published a PeopleSoft benchmark on x64 hardware running Oracle Enterprise Linux.
"IBM POWER7 SPECfp_rate2006: Poor Scaling? Or Configuration Confusion?" is a blog post by John Henning that casts a skeptical eye on certain aspects of the SPEC benchmark results posted for the IBM POWER7. His overall conclusion? "Scaling POWER7 from 2 to 4 chips is not impressive." He writes that, "As of 23-Feb-2010, IBM's best published 2-chip result and best 4-chip result for SPECfp_rate2006 are, respectively, 586 and 851. The scaling from 2 chips to 4 chips is less than 1.5x (851/586=1.452)."
How valid are HP's claims of pre-eminence in SAP SD benchmarks? In a Sun Performance and Best Practices blog, Guido Ficco comments on significant SAP SD 2 Tier results and HP claims. According to Ficco, HP's claims rely on data skewed to establish their result. In defense of his position, Ficco cites the results for the latest version of SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode).
Although it was never intended by its developers to be used as a benchmarking tool, the dd utility -- a simple, basic utility -- is nevertheless frequently used as a sequential workload generator for quick tests, writes Lisa Noordergraaf in the blog "Pitfalls of Benchmarking Flash with dd(1M)." She recommends vdbench as an alternative.
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