Profunds CMS Benchmarking @ IBM Labs, Bangalore

I along with few of my Colleagues were sent to benchmark Profunds CMS (Cash Management System), [a prestigious product of Laser Soft Infosystems Limited, Chennai] at IBM Labs (IBM SSC), Bangalore.

The benchmark was conducted on 2 System p series server both running AIX 5. One server was used for Application Server (IBM Websphere 6.1 Network Deployment) and other was used for Oracle 10G Database server.

Apache JMeter was used to generate load and record the server throughput and response time. Our test case was to login into the Profunds application and put an entry (Entry of Local Clearing Cheques) (approx 30 fields).

Initially we started with 100 concurrent users and slowly we went upto 750 concurrent users. We are overall satisfied with the servers response and throughput. A little percent of error was found when deploying the application on the Cluster setup.

The benchmark started on June 9 2008 (the day I reached Bangalore from Chennai on Shadabathi) and completed on June 13 2008 ( < a week).

I returned back to Chennai on June 14 2008.

The staff at IBM SSC were very cooperative.

I gained good experience with this benchmarking.