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Archived Performance Articles
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05 Sep 2011
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New World Record for Oracle Database 11g on SAP Assemble-to-Order (ATO) Standard Application Benchmark [24502]
SPARC Enterprise M9000 Beats All Previously Posted Records
Oracle announced that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracles SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server with 64 SPARC64 VII+ 3.0 GHz quad-core processors has set a new world record on the SAP Assemble-to-Order (ATO) standard application benchmark, delivering a record result of 206,360 fully business processed assembly orders per hour. In running this benchmark both the application tier and the database tier were deployed on a single SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, demonstrating its capabilities for workload consolidation.
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15 Aug 2011
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Sun Blade X6270 M2 with Oracle WebLogic Sets World Record on 2-Processor SPECjEnterprise 2010 Benchmark [24448]
Outperforms IBM System HS22 and IBM Power 730 Express Servers
The Sun Blade X6270 M2 two-chip server modules used Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 (10.3.5) application, Java SE 6 Update 26, and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 to set a world record performance mark against both the IBM System HS22 Server and the IBM Power 730 Express server. The X6270's results were superior to the HS22 and the 730 by 47% and 33%, respectively. The Sun Blade X6270 M2 application server was equipped with 2 x 3.46 GHz Intel Xeon X5690 chips, 48 Gigabytes (GB) of memory, and 4 x 10 GbE NIC.
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14 Jul 2011
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Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis Cheat Sheet [24356]
Start with a Search for the Bottlenecks
In his blog Constantin Gonzalez shares his personal cheat sheet for Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis, including some guidance on how to systematically catch that elusive bottleneck, which begins with the need to define the particular performance issue under consideration. Gonzalez sees this process in terms of finding all the bottlenecks in the system. He suggests looking for the bottlenecks in a definite series of places: CPU, RAM, Disk, and network. Gonzalez promises further details on what to expect to find in each of these locations in a forthcoming blog.
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07 Jul 2011
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SPARC T3-1 Record Results Running JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Day in the Life Benchmark [24327]
Bests IBM POWER7, IBM X3650 M2 Servers
Oracle has set new benchmark records with the SPARC T3-1 Server running JD Edwards Enterprise One Day in the Life. Using an Oracle SPARC T3-1 server for the application tier and Oracle's SPARC Enterprise M3000 server for the database tier, a world record result was produced running the Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications Day in the Life benchmark run concurrently with a batch workload. Performance was 25% better than an IBM Power 750 POWER7 server that was not running a batch component. Space/performance was also 25% better for the Oracle product than for the POWER7 as measured by the online component. The SPARC T3-1 server based result is 5x faster than the x86-based IBM x3650 M2 server system when executing the online component of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0.1 Day in the Life benchmark. The IBM result did not include a batch component. The SPARC T3-1 server based result has 2.5x better space/performance than the x86-based IBM x3650 M2 server as measured by the online component. Other aspects of the benchmark result can be found at the link above.
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15 Jun 2011
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Merck & Co Achieves Fivefold Performance Increase, Projects $8 Million Benefit [24274]
Runs Electronic Laboratory Notebook Network with Exadata Database Machine
Migration to Oracle Exadata Database Machine to power its CambridgeSoft electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) system has brought huge benefits to Merck & Company whose 4,000+ user network -- perhaps the world's largest deployed pharmaceutical ELN system -- is expected to pay dividends in the neighborhood fo $8 million. Exadata Database Machine is easily capable of meeting the projections that indicate rapid growth in both number of users and volume of data on Merck's ELN network. The migration was completed in a single weekend in late 2010 using Oracle GoldenGate data-synching technology to make the switch, as opposed to taking weeks for migration using conventional software. No business downtime was necessary. According to a Merck spokesperson, "We were literally able to flip the switch to launch the new platform. Scientists left Friday afternoon and returned Monday morning to a new system that was up and running with all the old data. There was no negative impact to the scientists. Moreover, Oracle's release adds, Merck wasnt required to make any changes to the ELN application itself to run on Oracle Exadata.
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14 Jun 2011
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SPARC Enterprise M5000 Delivers First PeopleSoft Payroll 9.1 Benchmark [24262]
Faster than $6m IBM z10 Mainframe with Nine 4.4 GHz Gen1 Processors
Oracle reports that its SPARC Enterprise M5000 server configured with eight 2.66 GHz SPARC64 VII+ processors together with Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array storage achieved world record performance on the Unicode version of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Payroll (N.A) 9.1 with extra large volume model benchmark using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracle Solaris 10. In setting this record, the SPARC Enterprise M5000 server processed payroll payments for the 500K employees PeopleSoft Payroll 9.1 (Unicode) benchmark in 46.76 minutes compared to a previous result of 50.11 minutes for the PeopleSoft Payroll 9.0 (non-Unicode) benchmark configured with 2.53 GHz SPARC64 VII processors resulting in 7% better performance, according to the Oracle release. The SPARC Enterprise M5000 server completed the end-to-end run in 66.28 mins, 11% faster than earlier published result of 73.88 mins with Payroll 9.0 configured with 2.53 GHz SPARC64 VII processors.
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