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Archive for January, 2007

Scalability : About

Posted by carl.reitschuster on 26th January 2007

Hi reader,

after a benchmarking test of Components of a CRM System with Oracle 10.2 and Sun Solaris with either AMD Opteron or Sun SPARC IV+ CPU’s i started to think about the definition of Scalability. Her it is:

Scalability is about how strong the increase 
of the Throughput/decrease of Response Time
of an Application or Software Component is
when additional resources of CPU, Memory and I/O are added;

A second one follows :

Scalability is about how strong the decrease
of the Throughput/increase of Response Time
of an Application or Software Component is
when the workload ( Amount of work, Amount of Concurrency ) increases;

Karl Reitschuster

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