Comments on: AMD Quad-Core “Barcelona” Processor For Oracle (Part I) http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/ Oracle-related Platform, Storage and Clustering Topics (with the occasional rant) Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:33:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: x86 Virtualization http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-1996 x86 Virtualization Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:13:53 +0000 http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-1996 <strong>Intels Back Inside</strong> This is been a huge Public Relations time for Intel, 3 huge companies have announced switching to and or back to Intel CPU’s over the past year. So, the question is why. The magic number is 4. Both AMD and Intel are pushing their quad core cpu&#8... Intels Back Inside

This is been a huge Public Relations time for Intel, 3 huge companies have announced switching to and or back to Intel CPU’s over the past year.
So, the question is why. The magic number is 4. Both AMD and Intel are pushing their quad core cpu&#8…

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]]> By: kevinclosson http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-310 kevinclosson Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:56:44 +0000 http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-310 Hi Amir, Well, Rock (if it sees the light of day) is slated for showing up in systems in 2008. In the meantime, AMD will have their quad core technology down to 65nm and other such improvements. I honestly think the decision between SPARC and AMD is a simple one. If you can jump off of the SPARC instruction set to, say, Solaris 10 x86, or Linux it would probably pay off in the long run. If you are stuck with the SPARC instruction set, then you have to pay the hardware price that such a situation warrants. I need to blog about Transitive as it has been an interesting topic on the OakTable lately... Hi Amir,

Well, Rock (if it sees the light of day) is slated for showing up in systems in 2008. In the meantime, AMD will have their quad core technology down to 65nm and other such improvements.

I honestly think the decision between SPARC and AMD is a simple one. If you can jump off of the SPARC instruction set to, say, Solaris 10 x86, or Linux it would probably pay off in the long run. If you are stuck with the SPARC instruction set, then you have to pay the hardware price that such a situation warrants.

I need to blog about Transitive as it has been an interesting topic on the OakTable lately…

]]> By: Amir Hameed http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-309 Amir Hameed Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:41:44 +0000 http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-309 Based upon what you know (so far) of these AMD quad-core and Sun's Rock processors, would it make those Oracle users who are making up their minds to migrate from those big iron Sun servers to AMD-based servers think twice? I am assuming that even if Rock is rock-solid, it will still be expensive because Sun's SPARC architectire is not as cheap as compared to AMD. Based upon what you know (so far) of these AMD quad-core and Sun’s Rock processors, would it make those Oracle users who are making up their minds to migrate from those big iron Sun servers to AMD-based servers think twice? I am assuming that even if Rock is rock-solid, it will still be expensive because Sun’s SPARC architectire is not as cheap as compared to AMD.

]]> By: kevinclosson http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-307 kevinclosson Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:25:39 +0000 http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-307 No, with the x86 ISA is a standard .5 per core. What I'm getting at is if a single socket dual core can get the job done, you'd be better off to go with it than a single socket quad-core. That is, unless Oracle extends its .25 per core policy for Sun Niagra to these new x86's No, with the x86 ISA is a standard .5 per core. What I’m getting at is if a single socket dual core can get the job done, you’d be better off to go with it than a single socket quad-core. That is, unless Oracle extends its .25 per core policy for Sun Niagra to these new x86’s

]]> By: Don Seiler http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-305 Don Seiler Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:17:47 +0000 http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/amd-quad-core-barcelona-processor-for-oracle-part-i/#comment-305 So is the licensing for AMD quad or dual cores different? So is the licensing for AMD quad or dual cores different?

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