Re: 10gR2 RHL4 on AMD opteron 64-bit or HP Itanium?

> Bob Jones wrote:
>> "HansF" <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message
>> news:pan.2005.12.09.16.42.10.909525_at_telus.net...
>>
>>>On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:20:14 +0000, Bob Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>That's exactly what I disagree with. What is Oracle's concept? RAC
>>
>> cannot
>>
>>>>>have more than 4 CPUs per node?
>>>>
>>>>What does that have to do with whether Itanium is more scalable than
>>
>> Opteron
>>
>>>>or not?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Has nothing to do with Itanium. Has everything to do with your 4-CPU
>>>question. And there has everything to do with Oracle RAC message - it's
>>>ALL in the economics.
>>>
>>
>>
>> You are not only off the topic, the comparisons you made earlier did not
>> show anything. If you want to talk about which configuraton is more
>> economical, I would be happy to discuss in a different thread. This
>> thread
>> is NOT about economics. READ THE THREAD.
>
> Wrong Bob. RAC is about scaling with commodity boxes ... boxes with 2 or 4
> CPUs. Thus your argument about Itanium scaling beyond 4 CPUs is
> irrelevant. But you just don't want to read the Oracle docs and
> acknowledge your error do you? Fine ... This thread is now kill-filed.
> --

You must be reading different Oracle docs then I do. This is from Oracle technical white paper.

"Customers today run clusters that fit their needs whether they are clusters of servers where each server is a 2 cpu commodity server to clusters where the servers have 32 or 64 cpus in each server."

I guess they must be wrong too. Received on Sun Dec 11 2005 - 15:43:53 CST