[geeks] Oracle dbs on Sun T2000?

[William Enestvedt]

I just found a post by a self described "Oracle / Performance
Specialist" named John Brady in which he mentions the following:
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PS. I've also had a chance to recently benchmark a T2000 system with an
UltraSPARC T1 processor in it, and it is not fast! In reality a single
1.2 GHz T1 CPU is comparable to 32 * 250 MHz UltraSPARC-II CPUs. So,
yes, a lot of total processing capacity, comparable to an E10000 system
from 1997 or so. But in today's world when all other CPU cores work at 1
GHz or above, squeezing 4 threads onto one core just ends up with all 4
running quite slowly. An impressive engineering effort, but only really
applicable to highly parallelised, scalable, multi-threaded
applications, like web sites. But not really suited to back end database
systems. The T2000 was out performed in all of my tests by a 2 *
UltraSPARC-IV+ V490, which can be doubled in capacity to 4 CPUs.
Something the T2000 cannot do. Don't believe everything Sun tell you!
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http://johnmbrady.blogspot.com/2006/06/sun-to-layoff-5000-people.html

   So that makes me a little dubious. :7(

   But where he says "UltraSPARC II," doesn't he mean "_III_"?

-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Providence, RI