Re: Help sizing for 2 Million a day (to 10 Million)

} } RS6000 SMP with the GOOD memory and multiple CPU (> 4)! Sounds like my old boss: "AS400, what was the question?" There are quite a few vendors out there which can provide this level of hardware. I would suggest you get ahold of their sales reps and ask them how to configure for this level of task and what the cost is. Of course if there is a political need to go with IBM - then by all means... cheers j. } On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Roger Meyers wrote: } } } Hi! } } } } I need to develop a solution that will support the processing of } } 2 million transactions a day and be scalable to 10 million with no } } major software modifications... } } } } The transactions are 256 bytes each. I can compute the disk } } requirements, but what I don't have a feel for is how powerfull a } } machine? They prefer some flavor of RS/6000. } } } } To prepare for the 10 million should I develop differently of will } } the scaleing all ocur in the Informix DBA area? } } } } Is anyone dealing with these types of numbers. Any pointers? } } } } TIA for any suggestions / information! } } } } Roger Meyers } } Strategic Software Solutions } } San Francisco _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com Back in Boise _____________________________________________________________________________ If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________