1. High Performance Analytics (HPA) in NetWeaver 2004s Thomas Zurek SAP NetWeaver BI

2.  SAP AG 2005, HPA @ HPTS 2005 / 2 HPA Engine based on Adaptive Computing What is HPA ? SAP BI 7.0 Data Acquisition InfoCubes Analytical Engine Business Explorer Any Tool Any Source SAP NetWeaver 2004s

3.  SAP AG 2005, HPA @ HPTS 2005 / 3 What is HPA ? cont'd blade-server based appliance search engine technology  originally developed for unstructured data  now applied to structured data (cube data) data resides in indexes  compressed  vertically / column-wise decomposed  no precomputed results (like materialized views, MOLAP aggregates, …) query processing  parallel  horizontal partitioning  main memory processing

4.  SAP AG 2005, HPA @ HPTS 2005 / 4 Cube 1,002,958,286 fact rows on the file system:  CSV files: 950 GB on the RDBMS:  data: 64 GB  indexes:56 GB on the HPA blade servers:  indexes:9 GB  upload: ≈ 7 hours Demo Statistics HPA server 7 * 2 CPU blades each CPU 3.2 GHz 2 GB memory per CPU 1 index server per CPU 470 MB memory consumed per server/CPU 120 GB