Benchmark results of CMC's TC/4© core banking system

During a benchmark test, CMC's TC/4© total banking application was able to achieve a speed of 438 transactions per second (tps), with the application and the database running on a single HP superdome system configured with 24 CPUs. With 12 CPUs configured on an HP rp8400, a speed of 239 tps was achieved.

The tests were carried out on HP superdome and HP rp8400 servers, with HP StorageWorks XP and VA storage arrays. The Oracle database used contained in excess of 9 million accounts, with a mix of accounts types. The transaction load comprised a mix of different transactions, with all financial transactions consisting of two segments (one debit and one credit).

During the end-of-day processing, the system achieved a batch processing speed of over 95,000 deposit accounts per minute on the HP superdome with 32 CPUs, and over 40,000 deposit accounts per minute on the HP rp8400 with 12 CPUs. The database had over 150 million transaction history records. The average transaction response time was 0.23 seconds.

The tests were conducted at the Hewlett-Packard (HP) capacity planning centre at North Ryde in Sydney, Australia, during April 2002. The results confirm the TC/4© application architecture's scalability.

This benchmark significantly raises the performance bar for TC/4. CMC expects an even better performance with further tests. The HP superdome is the leading high-end server from HP's business-critical systems product. The systems were configured with the latest 750MHz PA8700 RISC processor chipset.

For effective customer-centric and centralised banking, robust systems with very high reliability and performance are required. CMC's TC/4© running on HP systems will be able to deliver, today as well as in the future.

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