Hi Jogi,
I don't think this really belongs in this forum, although I am not sure which forum is better. Be aware that this
thread may move shortly
You should also be aware that JavaRanch members are all over the world, so many of them may not see this post within the 7 hours between when you posted your question, and when you posted your follow up. So please be a little patient. You may even find that you get more responses by not posting a follow up - many people actually notice posts that have zero replies, and go and look to see what the message is about.
As to your question - this is a bit of an aracane art.
What you really need is a feel for how your application will perform on any given machine, and what it's pinch points are. You can generally get a feel for this by doing some
testing on any machine, and seeing how your application handles 'x' transactions per second, 'x * 2' transactions per second, 'x * 4' transactions per second. For each of those, what was CPU usage like? What was memory usage like? How much network traffic was generated? How many page faults did you get (disk or memory).
Then you can look at benchmarks for various configurations (available from most hardware manufacturers) and work out how the configuration changes will affect your pinch points.
Then you can (hopefully) extrapolate out to work out what the right hardware is for your anticipated load.
If you are talking big machines (you mentioned Tandem), most of the larger companies have sales staff who do these sorts of calculations all the time. So you could go to them with the details of what your system is, what CPU / Memory requirements it has in your test environment, and tell them how many transactions per second you need to be able to handle, and get them to come up with a machine configuration that will meet your requirements. Only do this if you are serious about buying from one of the manufacturers you contact though - you won't learn from it (they will just give you a response stating what they believe is the right box for you), and they will not be likely to help you out if you do this several times without purchasing anything from anyone.
Many companies are more than happy to partner with software suppliers. This can mean that you can get to try your application on hardware that you have no hope of ever purchasing yourself, and you can see how it handles in different configurations. The hardware manufacturers like it because it gives them an easier sales angle to try and get their hardware into your client.
Regards, Andrew
But currently I am working on a proposal which is to be submitted to client. I refered to benchmark application on BEA's site and did my calculations. But apart from vendor benchmarks is there any other way
