You may not need this kind of horsepower but if you’re working on mission-critical, on-demand integration projects in deployment across the telecommunications, media, financial services, government, manufacturing, transportation, and energy industries, maybe you do. Cape Clear and Intel have performed a benchmarking study designed to test the scalability and performance of Cape Clear 7’s enhanced Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine has found Cape Clear 7 capable of processing 5 million complex and long-running simultaneously active business processes and 37 million transactions in a 24-hour period without compromising performance. Using BPEL scenarios running on a network of up to eight Dual-Core Xeon processors, Intel benchmarked the following key Cape Clear 7 results. Consistent transaction throughput of over 25,000 fully recoverable BPEL transactions per minute ; equivalent to over 37 million in a single 24- hour period, response rates improved as transactional load on the system increased, 5 million complex and long running simultaneously active instances were created ; response times were shown to be constant and independent of the number of active instances, full recovery was successfully demonstrated by randomly killing servers in the cluster and showing uninterrupted and correct processing behavior while the processes were rapidly recovered. According to the companies, benchmarking BPEL presents unique challenges ; for example, owing to the long-running and asynchronous nature of many of the applications, traditional Transaction Processing Council-style raw throughput measurements are not always appropriate. In support of this exercise, and based on the scalability and performance requirements of large-scale BPEL customers including Cisco, Channel 4, Pearson Education, MessageLabs, and Workday, Cape Clear has developed realistic and accurate scenarios to measure key performance, scalability, and reliability. The benchmark tests were run over a period of 10 days at the Intel Solution Center at Winnersh, Berkshire, UK earlier this month. The detailed specifications of the hardware, software, and network used ; the methodology employed and measurements taken ; and, source code for the BPEL scripts employed and details of the Cape Clear configuration are available for download at the Cape Clear website.