Unisys partnered with the Microsoft Analysis Services
development team to run a series of performance tests. The tests
were executedover a period of several months, consequently some
tests were run on beta levels of Analysis Services (64-bit) and
others on the released version of Analysis Services (64-bit).
Similar Unisys ES7000 server systems were used for all of the
tests, having up to 16 64-bit Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and up
to 40 GB ofmemory. In addition, the tests used Microsoft® SQL
Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (SSABI) for Sales and
Marketing (using real-life sales data), and were performed with
varying numbers of processors (8-, 12-, and 16-CPU
configurations).
