Re: 10gR2 RHL4 on AMD opteron 64-bit or HP Itanium?

Bob Jones wrote:
>>>High-end Itanium systems can scale up to over 100 processors in a single
>>>machine. Opteron systems sold by major vendors only go up to 4.
>>
>>More bugs per box eh?
>>
>>If you are building a RAC cluster ... more than 4 CPU's in a box may be
>>strongly indicative that you haven't been paying attention to Oracle's
>>message.
>>--

> 
> 
> And what would that message be? 

Low cost resilient hardware.
Use low-cost commodity components.

You don't buy an 8CPU box ... you buy 4 x 2CPU boxes or 2 x 4 CPU boxes. This has been Oracle's message for years. I'm surprised you are not familiar with it.

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