psoug wrote:
> One of the Puget Sound Oracle User Group's members, Kent Stroker,
> has now built the largest RAC on Mac cluster on the planet, TTBMK.
>
> Pictures of the 5 node cluster can be seen at http://www.psoug.org.
> click on RAC on Mac news.
>
> This is the second commercial cluster built in two weeks. The first,
> a 2 node cluster was built in Washington state for a major public
> utility. This latest one is in Florida.
>
> I am unable to disclose the benchmarks but can definitely say that
> this 5 node cluster's performance beats any comparably sized
> cluster we have ever seen. And by a very wide margin.
>
> Daniel A. Morgan
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> http://www.psoug.org
> (replace the x with a u to respond)
Too bad - it seems Apple is going Intel:
http://news.com.com/Apple+to+ditch+IBM%2C+switch+to+Intel+chips/2100-1006_3-5731398.html?tag=cd.lede
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Sat Jun 04 2005 - 08:38:18 CDT
