Re: Oracle on a Beowulf Cluster

I've been told that OPS on Linux is being investigated. What the results of thsoe investigations will be is anyone's guess.

Pete

Billy Verreynne wrote:

> Bart Metzger wrote in message <3756F785.116E21A_at_hotmail.com>...
> >Has anyone had experience with this? Is it possible to do
> >datawarehousing with this?
>
> You will need Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) to run on a cluster. To my
> knowledge, OPS has not yet been released for Linux (is it even planned for
> Linux?).
>
> >Does it make a difference with the kernel, 2.0.x vs 2.2.x. Especially
> >as it pertains to the parallel query option.
>
> Wrong question IMHO if you're saying clustering implies parallel query (PQ).
> Running Oracle on a cluster is not the only way to use PQ. PQ is simply the
> multithreading of a single query. This can be done on a single CPU box. The
> only difference is that on a cluster, the multithreading of such a single
> query can be spread among the nodes of the cluster.
>
> The best place to ask these questions will probably be the Beoweolf e-mail
> list methink.
>
> Good questions though - I also would like to see OPS on a Linux Beowolf
> cluster. It should be a better technical solution that a NT cluster.
>
> regards,
> Billy

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Regards

Pete

Received on Wed Jun 09 1999 - 10:56:12 CDT