Re: 64 bit or 32 bit

Yasaswi Pulavarti wrote:
> Hi Fabrizio:
> Thank you for your reply. For option 2 you also mean EM64T Xeon
> processors and not just AMD64 right?
> Also when you say AMD64, which Opteron model are you using? 200 or
> 250? Please inform. I need to make a hardware decision as well for
> running Oracle 10g.
> Thanks,
> Yasaswi
>

Well, my reply was imprecise.
As Jeroen stated there is even oracle10g for z/linux. I mised it since I have never tried that architecture. Unfortunately I cannot install linux on my company mainframe :(

However the option 2 referred to EM64T and AMD64 but I have first hand experience only with the second (HP DL585 Model 848, 4 CPU 2.2GHz/ 1MB). The machine is execellent. Maybe the fastest I tested (IBM power5 should be even faster... maybe in 6 months I'll have something mounting them).

I believe the opteron (SMP configuration) could be a good solution even if you don't need 64bit...

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Fabrizio Magni

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