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Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake
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SAP-SD 2-Tier, Linux / Sybase
The (Sales and Distribution) benchmark is described on the SAP web site as:
The Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark covers a sell-from-stock scenario, which includes the creation of a
customer order with five-line items and the corresponding delivery with subsequent goods movement and
invoicing.
The SAP-SD Two-Tier benchmark’s primary metric is the Number of Benchmark Users. As figure 7 shows, the
PowerEdge R740 with Xeon Platinum 8280 achieved an acknowledged world record result being 11% higher
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than from
the PowerEdge R740 with Xeon Platinum 8180 which itself was a world record
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Figure 7 Performance improvement running SAP SD 2-Tier, Linux / Sybase
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Results of the Dell PowerEdge R740 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark: 35,505 SAP SD benchmark users with
the SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, and Sybase ASE 16.0.03.03, 2 x Intel Xeon
Platinum 8280 processors (56 cores, 112 threads), 768 GB main memory. Certification number 2019026.
http://www.sap.com/benchmark
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Results of the Dell PowerEdge R740 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark: 32,085 SAP SD benchmark users with
the SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, and Sybase ASE 16.0, 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8180
processors (56 cores, 112 threads), 768 GB main memory. Certification number 2017017.