RE: AMD vs Xeon 64 bit

Anjo, List

Qs 1 If you could share some more config info on the 30K $ Box please? O.S., Vendor etc

Qs 2 Did the O.S. continue to be Solaris OR did it change to something? Sun does offer Boxes with with Opteron CPUs:- http://www.sun.com/servers/index.jsp?cat=Sun%20Fire%20x64%20Servers&tab= 3

Qs 3 Will moving to Opteron CPUs require RE-Compilation & porting of existing Application Code?

NOTE - Our Banking Products are Coded is in Pro C, .Net, Java currently Runs on Solaris, Windows , HP-UX (on Itanium Chips), AIX (P5 Servers) with Oracle / SQL*Server Databases

Am looking to check the possibility of our Banking Product's possible port to AMD Opteron & possibly build a case for management. Qs 4 Any Site, Links, Presentations which can be used suitably, Other than the following?

http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/04/22/duel_of_the_titans/page5.html http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_14 287,00.html

Thanks indeed.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Anjo Kolk Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:24 PM To: j.miranda_at_sermatica.es
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Subject: Re: AMD vs Xeon 64 bit

Dl 585 is the one to go for. Buy the fastest and most memory that you can and you will be smiling the whole day. I just advised a customer to replace their 16 cpu SUN sparc box with a 4 CPU dual core Opteron. The sun box was 1 million dollar, the opteron costed around 30K dollar. They went live over the weekend and and they are very happy :-)

Anjo.

On 9/5/06, Juan Miranda <j.miranda_at_sermatica.es> wrote:

        Hi         

        We will buy an new server.

        SO will be RHEL 4 AS/ES         

        Alternatives:         

1. HP 585 4x AMD Opteron
2. HP 580 4x Xeon

        Any reference, idea, experience about these 2 alternatives ???         

        What about SGA limit ?

        I think I can make a huge SGA with AMD64 (no 3 GB limit),

        Do I have this limit in Xeon 64 bit ?         

        Thanks.                           

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