Mark Townsend wrote:
> Serge Rielau wrote:
>
>>
>> *chuckle*And there always will be because SMP scales better than RAC
>> (more CPUs needed)
>
>
> Not necessarily - as people move of their older SMPs they can find that
> the new CPUs in the smaller blades of their new Linux clusters are much
> more powerful than what they had before, and that they have a lot more
> memory, L2 cache etc. Does depend on how old the SMP is.
>
..and how expensive it would be to upgrade that SMP box instead. I'm not
an accountant, but can't hardware be written of better than software in
the US? Just some non obvious impact thought....
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Wed Nov 30 2005 - 11:23:46 CST
