Re: RAC or Large SMP...?
From: <mccmx_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:08:20 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <30456044-e3c2-457e-8165-2cabeedafe95@w13g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
> If you have your mind set on x86, I would suggest looking into IBM xSeries.
> They can scale way beyond 24 cores.- Hide quoted text -
Yeah x86_64 is the chosen platform.
I thought 24 cores was the limit for xSeries. How far can you go..?
I heard that the architecture of the high and IBM xSeries is NUMA based (rather than SMP) and I was concerned at whether an Oracle database with a large SGA would be able to scale on a NUMA based box considering the relatively high latencies of non-local memory access.
Do you have any experience with Oracle on high end xSeries..?
Thanls Received on Tue Oct 07 2008 - 20:08:20 CDT