Thanx for the input. I did not know the TPC website, that's very helpful. Ans also the Opteron option i will look at. I am convinced that you should not use that kind of " rule of thumbs" and more important, my colleague is now too...
Joop On 17 mrt 2008, at 22:45, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
Hey Jared - this email is worth copying the list . :)On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I'm not a HW guy either, nor do I play one on TV.But I do know some HW guys. The common nickname for Itanium is 'Itanic'Make of it what you will.The current IO champ in price/performance is not Intel, but AMD Opteron.Don't know if it has been through TPC, but I do know some folks that understand IO and CPU's down to the bit level, and their choice is Opteron. I believe HP hasa line of servers with this chip. Very fast with Oracle. JaredFWIW I ran Kevin Closson's "silly little benchmark" on some Opteron 8218XE's and Xeon L5320's a couple months ago -- and the Opterons cleaned house. Kevin had a series about the Opterons too. I completely agree that they're very good processors.http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/kevin-closson-index/oracle-on-opteron-k8l-numa-etc/I've also heard that the Itaniums aren't that great, although I don't have any personal experience. They do seem to have lower priority for receiving Oracle patches and support and such. I was just pointing to the TPC website because it might be useful in trying to persuade a manager to consider Intel alongside IBM. :)-- Jeremy Schneider Chicago, IL http://www.ardentperf.com/category/technical