Re: [Beowulf] Oracle spins own Linux for mega hardware

2010-09-20 Thread Mark Hahn
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

Re: [Beowulf] Oracle spins own Linux for mega hardware

2010-09-20 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

[Beowulf] Oracle spins own Linux for mega hardware

2010-09-20 Thread John Hearns
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