Performance of Migrated HP e3000 Applications

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Number of Processors
• The amount of diminished returns from adding
processors may vary by operating system.
• An HP-UX rp7400 8-way server offers 5.44 times
the OLTP performance of a 1-way server. See
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/rackoptimized/
rp7400/specifications/index.html#perform
• This is about what we would have expected to see if HP
had offered an 8-way N4000 HP e3000 system.
• So the scaling on HP-UX PA-RISC is similar to MPE/iX.