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IBM AS/400e Server Sets Domino Scalability and Performance Records

Somers, N.Y., July 26, 2000 ... IBM today announced that its AS/400e Model 840 server powered by silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and copper wiring technologies has set a new world record for Lotus Domino scalability and performance, successfully handling 75,000 concurrent NotesBench R5 Mail Users with an average response time of 276 milliseconds. That is like managing e-mail for a population the size of the city of Rochester, Minn., on a single AS/400 server.

In this officially audited benchmark, a single IBM AS/400e Model 840 server supported 10 times as many concurrent users as the largest audited enterprise server offering from Sun Microsystems and more than five times as many concurrent users as the largest audited offering from Compaq -- while cutting the average response time in half.

AS/400's industry-leading scalability allows customers to achieve significant cost savings by consolidating their Lotus Notes mail, calendar and application users on fewer servers.

The audited configuration is a 24-way IBM AS/400e Model 840 server powered by IBM's copper and SOI microprocessors and running Version 4 Release 5 of OS/400 and Domino Release 5.03. AS/400 is the only NotesBench-audited server that includes a database -- IBM DB2 Universal Database for AS/400 -- in its operating system.

We're pleased to see IBM AS/400e taking advantage of Domino R5's scalability and reliability, said Jeanette Medlin, director of Worldwide Product Marketing, Lotus Messaging and Collaboration Products. Our mutual customers will benefit from the AS/400's robust architecture and tuning for Domino to allow them to consolidate servers and fully utilize the AS/400's capacity by running multiple applications on the same server.

Several innovations set IBM AS/400e apart as a Domino server. One copy of Lotus Domino runs in multiple software partitions, allowing many protected, secure Domino applications to run on a single AS/400e server. In addition, work management, subsystems, single-level store, threads, Integrated File System, asymmetric processors and logical partitioning all contribute to an integrated environment that allows customers to run multiple types of applications.
Server consolidation was the driving factor for us, said David Price, Senior Groupware Architect, ABN AMRO North America. With Lotus Domino for AS/400, we are able to manage capacity as a whole, not server by server, resulting in more efficient hardware utilization. From my staff's viewpoint, after-hours is now used for tasks with greater benefits, not maintenance.

IBM today also announced that its AS/400e Model 840 server has set a new record for single-server transaction processing performance for the TPC-C benchmark. In June, the AS/400e Model 840 achieved industry-leading VolanoMark and SPECjbb2000 benchmark results for server-side Java performance, demonstrating AS/400's leadership in running Domino, Java and data-transaction workloads.

IBM AS/400e NotesBench Results

: Workload: R5Mail
Domino version: R5.03
NotesBench version: R5.03
Number of users: 75,000
Notesmark: 101,213

About IBM AS/400e Servers

IBM is the world's leading server company, and IBM AS/400e is the world's most popular multi-user commercial business computer, with 700,000 systems shipped to customers in more than 150 countries. It is a powerful, flexible transaction server capable of managing and connecting a company's core business applications to suppliers, distributors and customers over the Web. AS/400e scales from a single processor to a 24-way processor and is in its sixth generation of 64-bit RISC technology.

The IBM AS/400e Model 840 server is powered by the world's first production microchips made of silicon-on-insulator transistors and copper wiring. The addition of SOI alone can increase performance up to 20-30 percent beyond the use of copper by protecting the millions of transistors on a chip with a blanket of insulation, reducing harmful electrical leakage that wastes power. The AS/400e Model 840 is 3.6 times faster than the previous generation of AS/400 servers.

The new line of IBM AS/400e servers will be generally available on July 28, 2000.
For more information on IBM AS/400e, visit http://www.as400.ibm.com.
For more information on the NotesBench results, visit http://www.notesbench.org or http://www.ideasinternational.com.
IBM, AS/400, AS/400e, DB2 and OS/400 are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Notes and Domino are trademarks of Lotus Development Corp. Java and all Java-related trademarks and logos are trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States and other countries. VolanoMark is a trademark of Volano LLC. All other trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
This document was created on July 26, 2000. The data contained herein was accurate at the time of creation. IBM recognizes that newer data may be published after this date that could cause this data to become inaccurate.
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