"Thought others might be interested in this, regarding the recent claim
by Siemens that Linux produced the highest SD Benchmark results to date on
Intel hardware. I had mentioned the news article to several Windows users
and was pointed to an older article by Siemens that showed an NT server
that was actually benchmarked slightly faster (245 SD users as opposed to
the 241 that Linux acheived).
"I contacted Fred [Mobach], as he had actually
contacted Siemens, and had received the certified results (which were
posted on Linux Today recently), and he pointed me in the direction of Mr.
Hecht at Siemens. According to Mr. Hecht, Linux has indeed the fastest
results to date, as the previous benchmark was done on V3.1, while the
Linux tests were performed on V4.0.. And according to him, V4.0 is
typically up to 30% slower than V3.1 on the same hardware.
"This is indeed
the verification I was looking for and clarifies the point greatly. Below
is Mr. Hechts' response:"
Forwarded Message ------------------
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 10:50:26 +0200
From: Hecht Michael @wdf.siemens.de
To: Bradford L. Barrett @mrunix.net
Subject: Linux-Benchmark, your questions
Dear Mr. Barrett,
unfortunately the R/3 benchmark site from IDEAS International is sortet only
by the number of SD benchmark users and not sorted by R/3 release.
The benchmark you mentioned with 245 SD users on NT was performed with R/3
release 3.1, so you canīt compare this result with a benchmark with release
4.0. With release 4.0 on the same hardware you will get up to 30% less SD
bench users! Therefore the statement is correct that our Linux bench
reached the highest number of SD benchmark users on a 4-way Intel system.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.
