Seems strange that these suddenly appear after the Sun
acquisition. My take on it - a Sun HPC box which is being
repurposed as a high end database server.
Actually I suspect it's the other way around, I'm guessing
they're taking the Sun Exadata2 (pre-dates the purchase) and
are working to make t
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On 21/09/10 06:53, John Hearns wrote:
> Seems strange that these suddenly appear after the Sun
> acquisition. My take on it - a Sun HPC box which is being
> repurposed as a high end database server.
Actually I suspect it's the other way around, I'm g
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/20/oracle_own_linux/
Two points I would like to explore here:
"The eight OLTP servers, meanwhile, will feature 2TB of DRAM and up to
4,096 CPUs, 4PB of cluster volumes and what Ellison claimed will be
"advanced" NUMA support."
Are these designs something that
Because you're trying to figure out how your application scales with
different memory speeds.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:52:25PM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> why would you want to run ram that is slower then the motherboard supports
> anyway? i dont see any advantages of doing that. isnt the
I'm sure that some BIOSes have that kind of feature, but none of the
ones that I'm currently using do.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 08:06:39AM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> Greg correct me if im wrong but cant you put in the memory which is
> compatible with the system and slow the memory bus down
why would you want to run ram that is slower then the motherboard supports
anyway? i dont see any advantages of doing that. isnt the whole point to try
and speed up the calculation process?
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> I'm sure that some BIOSes have that kind of feature
