6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
2:07 p.m.
<HUMOR>
I recently attended an Oracle presentation for the new T5 series Sparc
CPU's, and one of the questions from the present asked the Oracle
presenter about using ARM processors.
The initial response was a very PC/politically correct response in
regards to using the right tool for a particular job. After the PC
response the presenter shared a discussion between himself and a systems
design engineer, who had been asked about producing an Oracle systems
with hundreds-of-ARM-processors.
The engineers response was somewhere along the lines of "given Oracle's
data center focus and work load, building this type of system would be
the equivalent of removing the ox from the plow, and replacing the ox
with a hundred chickens".
true story.
</HUMOR>
Jerry
disclaimer: yes, I know Solaris has already been ported to ARM.
On 06/ 6/13 02:56 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Dave McGuire
<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
If anything
causes "slow death" anytime soon, it's not likely to be PeeCees. It might
be
ARM, but that'd be a ways off too, for that level of performance.
What ever happened to the hundreds-of-ARM-cores servers? I saw a
flurry of announcements a while back but I haven't seen much movement
towards data-center-centric ARM boxes lately. All I ever see is more
and more virtualization on 64-bit AMD/Intel boxes.
-ethan