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Oracle: SELECT * FROM SunOracle: SELECT * FROM SunPosted Apr 21, 2009 4:12 UTC (Tue) by wilreichert (subscriber, #17680)In reply to: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun by dw Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun
I gotta say the few projects I've been on involving niagra cpus have left me copmpletely underwhelmed. Running a highly parallel database might work well, but when my 3 year old laptop can compile java 5 times faster than an umpteen thousand dollar server something just aint right.
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Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun Posted Apr 23, 2009 2:36 UTC (Thu) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]
Your comment reminds me of the people back in the days of Cray who commented on how the unix shell on the machines seemed slower than on small workstations.
The idea of specialized hardware is that it's specialized for very specific tasks. It will be exceedingly good at them but may suck at everything else.
Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun Posted Apr 23, 2009 13:29 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574) [Link]
In particular, the T5240 is far better that
the faster M5000 at anything which is sensitive to needing an immediate dispatch without latency, such as web services. It's slightly slower at running multi-threaded but compute-intensive middleware, and slower at any single-threaded or compute-intensive task in direct proportion to clock speed.
--dave
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