Study for performance benchmark of bank intermediary business on high-performance fault-tolerant computers

The dominant position of High-Performance Fault-Tolerant (HPFT) computers in security and economics has advanced the studies on the performance benchmarks on the HPFT computers in the specific field, such as bank finance and telecommunication etc. Although TPC (Transaction Processing Council) has proposed some benchmarks models for different OLTP (On-Line Transaction Processing) complex business, such as TPC-C and TPC-E, there is still a lack of the performance benchmark model dedicated to the bank intermediary business on HPFT computers. This paper proposes a Bank Intermediary Business performance benchmark (BIBbench), and gives a solution to test and evaluate this benchmark on HPFT computers for bank intermediary business. In this paper, we present the architecture of BIBbench, defining the structures and attributes of the business model, the database model and the transaction/frame model, and illuminating the workload generation mechanism of the intermediary business system as well. The BIBbench testing environment architecture is also discussed in the paper, as well as the testing solutions and tools. Currently, this BIBbench has been partly implemented on the Oracle 10g database system, and some performance testing experiences based on the BIBbench for HPFT computers have been made.