The company claims that the tests prove the ability of EnergyIP to handle all points of data transfer and processing in real-time for the grid management deployments, including the capability to generate billing determinants by 9am to enable same day bill printing and mailing.
Performed at IBM’s Innovation Center for Business Partners in San Mateo, California, testing was done with a multi-tenancy configuration.
In multi-tenancy configurations, a single system serves the requirements of multiple utilities or individual regions of a very large utility. The benchmark, leveraging the power of IBM’s mid-range 64 processor, p6-based application and data base servers, with DS4100 storage, completed runs for 20 million service delivery points, the company said.
Testing included scenarios for 15 minute and hourly intervals as well as simultaneous validation and bill determinate processing to handle the terabytes of data required of large-scale deployments.
Larsh Johnson, CTO of eMeter, said: “Our customers can be confident that their investments will be successful over the lifetime of their smart energy initiatives. These results with IBM are a testament to the scalability of a true service oriented architecture.”
