Re: Database servers on Sun T1

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 18 Jan 2006 06:34:32 -0800
Message-ID: <1137594872.207522.160790@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Neil Truby wrote:
> Has anyone any experience of running a serious database server (I'm
> particulrly interested in Informix IDS 9.40 or 10, but Oracle or DB2
> experience would be interesting too) on Sun's new T1 processors (or should I
> say "low-heat, highly parallelized T1 processors"?)

Neil we do have plans for taking a serious look at this new platform but we haven't done anything yet. ( We run oracle ).

Sun does have a bunch of information available

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/rmc#welcome_to_the_cmt_era1

Instead of "low-heat, highly paralllelized" the new mantra is "cool threads". Scott was really jazzed up ( nothing new there ) in his introduction of these machines to the marketplace. Received on Wed Jan 18 2006 - 08:34:32 CST