System Configuration Diagram

  Tablespace sizes were increased to support the Injection rate.
  Scripts to create the DB are included in the FDA.
  Table and index initrans were modified.
  The M_INVENTORY, M_WORKORDER, M_PARTS, O_ORDERLINE,
  S_SUPP_COMPONENT, S_PO, C_CUSTOMERINVENTORY, O_ORDERS tables were
  horizontally partitioned.
  Automatic segment space management was used for all tablespaces.
  System managed undo was used.
  Table locks were disabled during the run using disable_lock.sql

  The load program was not modified.

  The following Beans were deployed in READ_COMMITTED mode as per the
  benchmark requirement:
  Mfg      - AssemblyEnt, BomEnt, ComponentEnt, LargeOrderEnt, PartEnt
  Orders   - ItemEnt
  Supplier - SupplierCompEnt, SupplierEnt
  
  All other beans were deployed using pessimistic locking mode such that all
  selects including finders are issued with a FOR UPDATE clause in select
  statement:
  Corp     - CustomerEnt, CustomerInventoryEnt
  Mfg      - InventoryEnt, WorkOrderEnt
  Orders   - OrderEnt, OrderLineEnt
  Supplier - POEnt, POLineEnt, SComponentEnt
  Util     - SequenceEnt
  
  The ItemEnt bean was cached for 20 minute intervals by setting:
  read-only to true, and
  time-to-live to 1200000 (ms)
  in orders-toplink-ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor.

  To ensure database durability, RAID 1 (mirroring) was used for the
  database Redo logs and datafiles.
  
  The application server was using mirrored disks to
  provide durability for server logs and JMS persistence filestore.
  
  The RAID controller on the database and application server machines were
  configured with Write-Back cache policy supported with battery backed up unit
  on the controller.

  An 80 minute run at an injection rate of 6350 increased storage by 15698 MB
  This extrapolates to 189GB of storage for a 24 hour run.
  The database is configured with 16TB of durable storage.

  Oracle Application Server 10g uses pass-by-value as required by the EJB
  specification.

Supplier  Description                                   Product #          Qty
--------  -------------------------------------------   ----------------   ---
HP        Integrity BL860c blade server                 AD323A-006          12
          2 x 1.67GHz Itanium 9100 processors
HP        4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs       AD344A              72
HP        72GB SAS 15,000rpm disk drive                 431935-B21          12
HP        QLogic QMH2462 4Gb FC HBA                     403619-B21          12
HP        C7000 Enclosure                               AD361B               2
HP        4Gb Fibre Channel Pass-thru Module            403626-B21           4
HP        1Gb Ethernet Pass-Thru Module                 406740-B21           4
HP        BladeSystem c7000 Active Cool Fan             412140-B21          12
HP        BladeSystem c7000 Power Module                413379-B21          12
HP        HP-UX FOE                                     BA531AC             48
HP        3 year 24x7 hardware and software support     HA110A3

HP        HP Superdome Server Solution                  A5200A               2
HP        32 processor Superdome Enterprise Server      A9834A-429           2
HP        200-240VAC 3 phase, 4 wires, 8 gage cord      A9834A-006           2
HP        Superdome sx2000 Cell Board for Montecito     A9837A-0D1          10
HP        1.6 GHz Montecito with 24MB cache             A9840A-0D1          40
          Itanium dual-core module
HP        Memory - 16GB high performance DDR2           A9846A-0D1          20
          (8x2GB DIMM)
HP        HP 12 Slot PCI-X Chassis for sx2000           A9836A-0D1           5
HP        4Gb PCI-X DC 64 bit FC HBA                    A6826A-0D1           8
HP        PCI-X 2 port 1000Base-T Gigabit Adptr         A7012A-0D1           7
HP        HP-UX OE LTU                                  B9429CA-UMG,0D1,AJR 40
HP        HP rx2620 1.0G 1.5MB CPU server Solution      AB332A               1
          Admin Console
HP        3 year 24x7 hardware and software support     HA110A3

HP        Modular SAN Array 1000                        201723-B22           2
HP        72GB 15K U320 Pluggable Hard Drive            286778-B22          28
HP        MSA Controller                                218231-B22           2
HP        MSA 1000 Fibre Channel IO Module              218960-B21           2
HP        256MB Cache Module                            254786-B21           2
HP        3 year 24x7 hardware and software support     HA110A3

HP        EVA810 2C6D Array                             AG701A		     2
HP        StorageWorks 4/32 Full SAN Switch             AG757A		     2
HP        CV EVA 8k Series Unlimited Lic                T5183A		     2
HP	  M5314C FC Drive Enclosure                     AD542C	     	     8
HP        StorageWorks 146GB 15K FC HDD                 364621-B23	   224
HP        4GB SW Single Pack SFP Transceiver            A7446B	            32
HP        Storage Works LC/LC 2m Cable                  221692-B21	    32 
HP        24A High Voltage US/JP Modular PDU            252663-D72	     4
HP	  Universal Rack 10642 G2 Shock Rack		AF002A	             1  
HP	  10K G2 600W Stabilizer Kit			AF062A	             1 
HP	  10642 G2 Sidepanel Kit			AF054A	             1
HP	  CV EVA 7.0 Rep Sol Mgr 3.0 Media Kit		T3724E		     1 
HP	  Stor Essen Std Ed SRM Media Kit	        T5314AA		     1 
HP	  Stor Essen Std Ed SRM LTU			T5315AA		     1 
HP	  Bus Copy EVA8K Ser 1TB LTU			T5341A		     1 	
HP        3y Proactive 24 Service			HA111A3		      

HP        HP rx3600 1.6GHz/18MB 4-core                  AB596A-160           1
HP        8GB memory using 2GB DIMMS                    AB565A-0D1           4
HP        36GB 10K RPM drives                           AD140A-0D1           1
HP        iether 2 port Gigabit LAN card                A7012A-0D1           1
HP        4Gb Dual Port Fibre Channel Adapter           AB379A               1
HP        HP-UX FOE                                     B9430AC              4
HP        3 year 24x7 hardware and software support     HA110A3


Oracle    Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition,                 40*
          Per Processor (v10.2)
Oracle    Partitioning, Per Processor, Unlimited Users for 3 years          40* 
Oracle    Oracle Database Server Support Package for 3 years                 1
          Incident Server Support -(24x7x4)                        

Oracle    Oracle Application Server 10g - Java Edition, Per Processor       24*
          (v10.1)
Oracle    Oracle Application Server Support Package for 3 years             12
          - Incident Server Support -Package - (24x7x4)
   

(* 40 = 0.50 * 80) & (24= 0.50*48).  Explanation:  For the purposes 
of counting the number of processors which require licensing, an Intel 
multicore chip with "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying "n" cores 
by a factor of 0.50).

  The xerces implementation version 2.6.2 from xml.apache.org was used as it
  comes packaged with Oracle Application Server 10g.
  
  Requests were sent to different Appservers using DNS round
  robin, with a DNS server running on the DNS load balancer node.
  
  The driver used the following jndi.properties:
  java.naming.factory.initial=com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory
  java.naming.provider.url=ormi://main.specj.com:23791/SPECjAppServer
  java.naming.security.principal=oc4jadmin
  java.naming.security.credentials=welcome
  oracle.j2ee.rmi.loadBalance=lookup

The only errors in the driver error logs are the application errors
generated by this benchmark.

 On the database, incremental checkpointing ensured that no buffer will remain
dirty (in the cache) for more than the allowed time.

Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.3.2 implements Recoverable Last
Resource Commit optimization where one and only one SinglePhaseResource
participates in a global transaction with one or more XAResources. This is
accomplished by emulating an XAResource to represent the 1PC resource. The
transaction manager takes the following steps when it receives a request to commit
a global transaction that includes one emulated XAResource:
1. It invokes a prepare call on each of the 2PC resources.
2. If all of the 2PC resources are successfully prepared, then commit (one-phase)
is called and the commit record is written to the commit-log, on the emulated XA
resource (database) as part of the local transaction.
3. If the 1PC on the emulated XA resource completes successfully, then the
transaction manager calls commit on each of the 2PC resources.
or:
If the 1PC on the emulated XA resource fails, then the transaction manager queries
the commit-log for transaction outcome. If the record exists, 2PC resources are
committed, otherwise 2PC Resources are aborted.
Transaction outcome after a single point of failure is guaranteed by the presence of
the commit-record in the commit log, indicating a successful transaction completion;
while a missing commit-record signifies abort. The commit record is deleted lazily
after the global transaction has committed.

The table name listed in the default scripts for creating RLRC table, included in
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.3.2, was modified to reflect the tablename listed in
 the data-sources.xml file in the Config directory of each instance.