Re: AMD vs Xeon 64 bit

Vivek,

Still a bit shakey as I caused an accident on the highway this morning. Car crashed, ego crashed but body ok. Nobody injured. The funny thing was I was just on my way to the customer to see what they were and how they were doing with the new setup,

Q1) I will get you the precise spec, but the Vendor is SUN. Not sure if they decided on Redhat or solaris x86. I hope Redhat.

Q3) They were using IAS, so they could just move to the new platform by reinstalling the application server.

      Moving from Sparc/Solaris to Intel/Redhat requires a change to the code (recompile/relink) however with java you could be safe.

Q4) I will follow up with you.

Anjo.

On 9/6/06, VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com> wrote:
>
> 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_14287,00.html
>
> Thanks indeed.
>
>
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [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
> *Cc:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>
> *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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