Oracle-L: Re: Number of CPUs vs. Speed of CPUs

From: <alan.aschenbrenner_at_ihs.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:39:19 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00448E72.20020418143919@fatcity.com>

Paul,

Actually, Intel recently released it's 2.4 GHz processor. It looks fairly impressive, but I'm waiting for the Claw Hammer from AMD. It will most likely blow the doors off of Intel's latest P4, not to mention it has a cool name. :-) Here's a great review benchmarking Pentiums (up to the 2.4 GHz chip) against Athlon XP XXXX+ (up to the Athlon XP 2100+) chips:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1605

And for those of you curious about the future of AMD, here's a sneak peak at the Claw Hammer:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1591

Alan Aschenbrenner
Oracle DBA
IHS Group
alan.aschenbrenner_at_ihs.com

                                                                                                                   
                    "Paul Vallee"                                                                                  
                    <dbalist_at_pythi       To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>       
                    an.com>              cc:                                                                       
                    Sent by:             Subject:     Re: Number of CPUs vs. Speed of CPUs                         
                    root_at_fatcity.c                                                                                 
                    om                                                                                             
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                    04/18/02 12:23                                                                                 
                    PM                                                                                             
                    Please respond                                                                                 
                    to ORACLE-L

If pricing is a factor, and you're considering per-cpu pricing, then lean towards fewer, faster CPUs.
I think Intel announced a 2Ghz processor this week... :-)

Paul

---
www.pythian.com -- vallee_at_pythian.com -- 877-PYTHIAN
Smarter than adding another team member, Pythian has new services for
supplementing DBAs: get our help with monitoring, 24x7 on-call, daily
verifications, storage management, performance and more.
----- Original Message -----
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:58 AM


We are in the process of sizing a new server for multiple Oracle instances.
What factors are useful as input in determining how many CPUs and the
relative speed of them?  For example, do we want fewer, faster CPUs or do
we
want more, slower CPUs?  Are there any good guidelines to determine what
the
number of CPUs should be?

Thanks in advance -
Lisa





-- 

Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com


-- 

Author: 
  INET: alan.aschenbrenner_at_ihs.com

Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051
San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists
--------------------------------------------------------------------
To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message
to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in
the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L
(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may
also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).

Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 17:39:19 CDT