Here's the data they used. http://www.ordinal.com/
http://sortbenchmark.org/2006_NeoSortMinute.pdf -frank -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 7:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SORTS on the MF and PC's Skellen, Frank wrote: >Ordinal Technology's Nsort program has delivered the best commercial sort >performance on Windows and Unix systems. >Nsort is a sort/merge program that can quickly sort large amounts of data, >using large numbers of processors and disks in parallel. Unique in its CPU >efficiency, Nsort is the only commercial sort program to demonstrate: >1 Terabyte sorts (33 minutes) >1 Gigabyte/sec file read and write rates Please define all of above two demonstration points. Under what hardware mix are those points achieved? What do you mean by 1 Terabyte? Is it input, workspace or total mix of space usage? How long are these records? What sort criterias are used? What character coding are used? Please define the read/write rates. Is it total or per file or what? Are they on different disks? I personally would like sort input on one disk, workspace on second and output on third disk while my page datasets, Ok, page files, are spread around a few disks. Since you're speaking about windoze and Unix, what are these workload/overhead during such sort work. Can you still do work while that sorting is taking place or do you need a coffee break? ;) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
