Transaction Record Claimed

There are transactional systems, and then there are TRANSACTIONAL SYSTEMS. The former we see everyday when we use a credit card to pay for some retail purchase. But it is the latter that knocks your socks off because of the sheer magnitude of the transactions.

A good example of the latter is the announcement by IBM and Financial Network Services who are claiming the world's largest core banking benchmark result, delivering a record 9,445 business transactions per second (tps) in real-time based on more than 380 million accounts with 3 billion transaction histories. That's a lot of transactions.

IBM and FNS worked with Bank of China on the scalability benchmark powered by an IBM System z9 Parallel Sysplex mainframe running DB2 database software and FNS's BANCS core banking application software.

The goal of the benchmark was to execute a range of tests that covered online transaction processing (OLTP) scalability, end-of-day batch processing, and end-of-month batch processing with a target of handling unprecedented transaction volumes. The transaction and account mix was based on real customer projected workload characteristics in their production environment: cash deposit, credit transaction, cash withdrawal, debit transaction, loan account inquiry, deposit account inquiry, loan repayment cash, and loan repayment credit transaction.

The benchmark was performed at IBM's System z Customer Benchmark Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, from June to August 2006. The solution was based on FNS's BANCS core banking software package running on two IBM System z9 Enterprise Class Model 2094 (S54-754) machines and four DS8300 model 2107-922 storage subsystems. IBM System z9 was allocated with over 30,000 MIPS and 52 TB of DASD running on z/OS with DB2 relational database software and a CICS/TS Environment. The FNS BANCS solution only utilized 85 percent capacity of MIPS and 35 percent of DASD for application data processing, revealing massive scalability, and optimum system performance.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 10:36 AM  Permalink