How to find best Hardware requirements for an application?

[L1nuxVb]

Hallo, i have an application which is a university registration system, i want to know what is the best HW requirements to handle the registration process, my application uses MySQL as db server, and it uses windows 2003 enterprise server, i think that the only load will be on the db, right? and also is there any way to find how many number of students can register at the same time without making the server busy ?
thanks alot

[BillBoeBaggins]

Well since you have zero responses thus far, I will give what small insight I have for this. To test its system compatability, check to see what libraries your program uses then see which ones come standard on different OSes. etc.
Speed requirements, try varying speed computers.
RAM requirements, try varying RAM sized computers and watch your programs size in memory using the Task Manager. Make sure to watch it during loads to cause this often bloats the memory a lot.
For your server busy issue, take the processes in your code that access the server, then setup a client that will simulate hundreds or thousands of clients connecting to see if it breaks.
This is just a thought, but maybe you could compile your program as an ActiveX server, create a routine that will simulate the action that taxes the server. Then using another client app you could create a number of instances of your App and have them simulate it. There are a lot of ways to load test. I have never built a program to adapt to load test, I usually just added load test functions that would repeat the action so many times at such a speed to see what it would do.

Good luck!