RE: Going multicore, Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores)

As I said in an earlier email, if you go to the Oracle store and look at the licensing definitions, its:  

"For the purpose of counting the number of processors which require licensing for a Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor with 4, 6 or 8 cores at 1.0 gigahertz or 8 cores at 1.2 gigahertz for only those servers specified on the Sun Server Table which can be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts <http://oracle.com/contracts> , "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .25. "
 

And to go on a little further, the equivalent for Intel and AMD:  

"For the purposes of counting the number of processors which require licensing for AMD and Intel multicore chips, "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .50."
 

So, I was wrong, but its not .25 for Intel.  

Thanks,
Matt

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Michael Haddon Sent: Tue 3/28/2006 7:30 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Going multicore, Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores)

We just went through a licensing analysis for the T1000 and the Multicore processors,.. in the Oracle licensing document it states that for Intel Multi-Core system the algorithm is the number of cores * .25 for the processor license. For IBM and/or HP (I might be off a little here cause we didn't dive into the HP and IBM processors) but I believe it stated the #processors * .5.

For SUN Multicore processors the algorithm was the #cores * .75 so for 8 cores the license would be the same as it is for 6 processors

Mike

Matthew Zito wrote:

        From an Oracle licensing perspective, 8 cores in the niagra processor count as one processor for Oracle licenseing purposes.         

	Thanks,
	Matt
	
	
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	MessageCan you elaborate on "use all those cores simultaneously"? Would a
	parallel query not use all the cores, or heavy concurrent access by users?
	Imagine the licensing cost if you had two or three of these in a rac?
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