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Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 21, 2009 20:51 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun by bronson
Parent article: Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

POWER/PowerPC also sees a lot of use on high-performance supercomputers. BlueGene/L, for instance, uses POWER5 processors on its compute nodes.


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Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 22, 2009 0:15 UTC (Wed) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]

And don't forget video game systems. Every Wii, Playstation 3, and XBOX 360 have a PowerPC based CPU inside.

Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun

Posted Apr 22, 2009 4:08 UTC (Wed) by ebs (guest, #30411) [Link]

No, BlueGene/L uses PowerPC 440-based chips, not Power5

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