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Re: lies damn lies and benchmarks

From: Andrew Mobbs <andrewm_at_chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: 10 May 2002 15:43:13 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <j4y*GCVnp@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>


Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
>Does this mean RAC is not a good choice for TPC-C? Or are you only refering to
>federation which I beg to differ from clustering?
>Isn't it one of RACs points that adding small boxes is cheaper than switching
>from the 64CPU box to the 128 CPU box to scale?

On the contrary, there have been some excellent RAC TPC-C figures published. See for example the Compaq GS320 result. It does help when the cluster interconnect is a system backplane. :-)

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Andrew Mobbs - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~andrewm/
Received on Fri May 10 2002 - 09:43:13 CDT

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