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Re: RAC on Mac News

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:27:15 -0700
Message-ID: <1117916717.70834@yasure>


Frank van Bortel wrote:

> 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

There has been buzz around this for a couple of weeks. I don't see this as much of an issue as I expect Apple will still design their own motherboards and bus thus bypassing the weakness in what Intel has done.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Sat Jun 04 2005 - 15:27:15 CDT

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