RE: Oracle 10G info note

Simply stated, "send money, in larger quantities".

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-----Original Message-----
From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:09 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle 10G info note

> SETI isn't really a grid. It's just few specific servers that
> feed data to lots of "clients".
>
> Here's a quite fine quote from gridcomputing.com:
>
> Grid is a type of parallel and distributed system that
> enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of
> geographically distributed "autonomous" resources dynamically
> at runtime depending on their availability, capability,
> performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements.
>
> Tanel.

Which in Oracle terms probably means (semi)-intelligent RAC. It would probably need an new optimizer/job scheduler to work out which node would process which load best in near real time. Also the acronym would be I-RAC which might not be too good.

Niall

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