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April 1997
* Performance reports available at Digital's external web site.
http://www.digital.com/info/performance.dir.html
* Audit Report: AlphaServer 800 5/400 Lotus Notes R4.5A for NT
NotesBench. Authored by Harry Murray and Ken Bell of Digital Equipment
Corp. April 1997. Available in PDF and Postscript.
This document contains the audited information on the AlphaServer
800 5/400 Lotus Notes R4.5A for NT (V4.0) NotesBench results.
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/papers/lot80040.pdf
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/papers/lot80040.ps
* Performance Flash - QAD MFG/PRO and DIGITAL outstrip the competition in
performance, scalability and investment value. April 1997. This
performance flash compares the performance of QAD MFG/PRO V8.5 with
Progress on Digital UNIX to the competition, and also provides
positioning guidelines for MFG/PRO across the range of AlphaServers.
Available in Word, PDF, and Postscript.
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/other/pfqadv2.doc
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/other/pfqadv2.pdf
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/other/pfqadv2.ps
* Performance Flash - Microsoft Exchange Server Performance on Digital
Equipment Corporation's AlphaServer 800 5/400. April 1997. This
performance flash describes the performance results obtained for
Microsoft Exchange Server on the AlphaServer 800 5/400. Available in
Word, PDF, and Postscript.
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/other/pfmxas80.doc
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/other/pfmxas80.pdf
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/other/pfmxas80.ps
* Internet Mail Server Performance Characterization Project. Authored by
Kevin Crean, ASEPG. February 1997. Availabile in PowerPoint, PDF,
Postscript.
The goals of this project are to understand the performance
characteristics of Internet Mail Servers running on Digital UNIX on
AlphaServers. This PowerPoint presentation discusses the workload,
methodology, and results to date.
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/papers/isp.ppt
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/papers/isp.pdf
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/papers/isp.ps
* Microsoft Exchange on Digital Intel and Alpha Systems: Performance
Report. Postscript, PDF.
April 1997. Authored by R. Boehm, D. Loveluck, and M. Workman,
ASEPG. An update to the previously published performance report. This
paper includes information about the performance characteristics of
site and X400 connectors, as well as bridgehead servers. The report
describes the workload, methodology, and results of performance
characterization testing of Microsoft Exchange Server across a range of
Prioris and AlphaServer systems, and offers sizing and configuring
recommendations.
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/vol2/msexch.pdf
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/vol2/msexch.ps
February 1997
* AlphaServer Performance. Authored by Sean Reilly. Fall US DECUS,
November 1996. Available in PowerPoint, Postscript, and PDF formats.
* AlphaServer Update. Authored by Doug Williams. Unix Symposium,
September 1996. Available in PowerPoint, Postscript, and PDF formats.
* Configuring AlphaServers for Data Warehousing. Data Warehouse
Symposium, September 1996. Authored by Doug Williams. Available in
PowerPoint, Postscript, and PDF formats.
* Configuring TurboLaser Systems with Enterprise Storage Arrays.
Enterprise Storage Training, February 1997. Authored by Doug Williams.
Available in PowerPoint, Postscript, and PDF formats.
* Configuring VLM64 AlphaServerSystems for Database Applications.
Intruder II Techical Support Training, London, August 1996. Authored by
Doug Williams. Available in PowerPoint, Postscript, and PDF formats.
* Digital UNIX TruClusters -- Early Experiences and Future Enhancements.
Intruder II Techical Support Training, London, August 1996. Authored by
Doug Williams. Available in PowerPoint, Postscript, and PDF formats.
* Memory Channel Hardware and Architecture. European DECUS, October 1996.
Authored by Sean Reilly. Available in PowerPoint, Postscript, and PDF
formats.
* Optimizing for Server Performance. European & US DECUS, Fall 1996.
Authored by Sean Reilly. Available in PowerPoint, Postscript, and PDF
formats.
* Configuring 64b Informix Online on Digital Alpha. Source: Informix,
Fall 96. Authored by J Lynch, Informix. Available in Word, Postscript,
and PDF formats.
* Decision Support Indexing for Informix Online. Source: Informix, Fall
96. Available in Word, Postscript, and PDF formats.
* TruCluster 1.4 drd Performance. Excel Spreadsheet, October, 1996.
Authored by Sean Reilly. Available in Excel, Postscript, and PDF
formats.
* Microsoft Exchange Performance Characterization. March 1997. Authored
by R. Boehm in collaboration with M. Workman, ASEPG, and NT
Engineering. 39 slides. Presented to the WNT Wizards Symposium, March
1997. Available in PowerPoint format (931K characters), PDF format
(750K characters), PostScript format (11M characters), and ZIPped
PostScript format (488K characters).
* Performance Flash - Microsoft Exchange Server Performance on Digital
Equipment Corporation AlphaServer and Prioris Pentium Pro Based
Systems. February 1997. This performance flash describes the tests,
configurations, and results obtained from performance characterization
of Microsoft Exchange Server V4 on Windows NT V4.0A. Available in
[HTML], [PDF] and [Postscript] formats.
* Performance Flash: PeopleSoft Financials on DIGITAL UNIX Cluster.
Application Systems Engineering Performance Group. March, 1997.
Available in PDF and PS formats.
This performance flash describes the results of single and
three-node cluster testing of PeopleSoft Financials on the AlphaServer
8400.
* In the better late than never category: Performance Considerations for
Your Windows NT Internet Server. September 1996. ASEPG. Available in
HTML format at http://www.europe.digital.com/info/internet/document
/nt-perform-tips/index.html
Digital's Applications System Engineering Performance group
(ASEPG) in Nashua, NH, tested two servers to help you evaluate and
maximize the performance of your Windows NT-based web server. ASEPG
tested the Netscape Communications Server V1.12, and Microsoft's
Internet Information Server (IIS) V1.0A, using Windows NT V3.51 on a
number of different platforms for both Alpha and Intel processors.
* News is being updated once again. Updating the news turned out to be a
very time consuming activity. After a four month lapse, I finally got
around to creating a set of PERL scripts that prepare a mailed news
article for publication to the web, and automatically generating the
Trade News page from all of the news articles found. Please let me know
if you have any problems with the form or content of the news page.
* Top 20 Downloads - a list of the 20 most popular files can be found at
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/cgi/top20dl. This page is dyanmically
generated by a PERL5 script based on analysis of the HTTP access log
over the last 30 days.
* QAD MFG/PRO Sizing Sheet. Authored by QAD and Digital. 2 Pages.
February, 1997. Available at http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/html/qad.htm.
This two page sheet offers recommendations for sizing QAD MFG/PRO on
Digital's Prioris and AlphaServer families of systems.
* Performance Flash: Digital AlphaServer 1000 5/300 Running the
Integrated Telecommunications AlphaServer Option. Application Systems
Engineering Performance Group. February, 1997. Available in PDF and
Postscript.
This document characterizes the performance of the Integrated
Telecommunications AlphaServer Option running on the Digital
AlphaServer 1000 5/300. Tests were done using a comprehensive messaging
workload that included electronic mail, facsimile, and telephony
operations.
* Digital AlphaServer 1000 5/300 Running the Integrated
Telecommunications AlphaServer Option. Authored by Stephen Lowney and
David Menengas, Application Systems Engineering Performance Group.
February, 1997. 18 Pages. Available in PDF and Postscript.
This document characterizes the performance of the Integrated
Telecommunications AlphaServer Option running on the Digital
AlphaServer 1000 5/300. Tests were done using a comprehensive messaging
workload that included electronic mail, facsimile, and telephony
operations.
* A Microsoft products performance page has been put together at
http://yesmom.zko.dec.com/html/microsoft.htm.
* AlphaServer 4100 5/466 Lotus Notes R4.5A for NT NotesBench: Audit
Report. Authored by Harry Murray and Ken Bell of Digital Equipment
Corp. February 1997. Available in PDF and Postscript.
January 1997
* Digital's AlphaServer and Prioris Intel-based Systems Running JD
Edwards OneWorld Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution, Version
B71.3. A Performance Flash authored by ASEPG for the Business
Application Group, Software Partners Group. January 1996. Available in
PDF and PostScript.
Describes a series of benchmarks jointly conducted by Digital and
JD Edwards and was intended to determine the number of OneWorld
transactions per hour that could be supported across the range of
Digital platforms. Testing was done using a 2-tier environment with
business applications configured on the clients and business data
configured on the Digital database servers.
* AlphaServer 4100 5/400 Lotus Notes R4.5A for NT NotesBench: Audit
Report. Authored by Harry Murray and Ken Bell of Digital Equipment
Corp. January 1997. Available in PDF and Postscript.
* Microsoft Exchange Performance Characterization. January 1997. Authored
by R. Boehm in collaboration with M. Workman, ASEPG, and NT
Engineering. 39 slides. Available in PDF format (360K characters),
PowerPoint format (700K characters), and PostScript format (10M
characters).
Topics include the LOADSIM workload, methodology, characterization
process, server sizing, multi-server performance, and tuning
recommendations for Microsoft Exchange.
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