Re: 10gR2 RAC on RISC or X86-64 hardware

Hey Jared - this email is worth copying the list . :)

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not a HW guy either, nor do I play one on TV.
>
> But I do know some HW guys. The common nickname for Itanium is 'Itanic'
>
> Make of it what you will.
>
> The current IO champ in price/performance is not Intel, but AMD Opteron.
>
> Don't know if it has been through TPC, but I do know some folks that
> understand
> IO and CPU's down to the bit level, and their choice is Opteron. I
> believe HP has
> a line of servers with this chip.
>
> Very fast with Oracle.
>
> Jared
>

FWIW I ran Kevin Closson's "silly little benchmark" on some Opteron 8218XE's and Xeon L5320's a couple months ago -- and the Opterons cleaned house. Kevin had a series about the Opterons too. I completely agree that they're very good processors.

http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/kevin-closson-index/oracle-on-opteron-k8l-numa-etc/

I've also heard that the Itaniums aren't that great, although I don't have any personal experience. They do seem to have lower priority for receiving Oracle patches and support and such. I was just pointing to the TPC website because it might be useful in trying to persuade a manager to consider Intel alongside IBM. :)

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Jeremy Schneider
Chicago, IL
http://www.ardentperf.com/category/technical

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