I believe I read that CERN is planning on creating a DB that may reach 20 petabytes(not sure what the time table is for this) and they plan to use Oracle's 'grid'. I would assume this would be more than 48 Nodes. anyone know any details about the CERN project? -------------- Original message -------------- Kevin, Well said. Chris Marquez Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Kevin Closson Sent: Tue 6/21/2005 12:22 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: 64 node Oracle RAC Cluster (The reality of...) > The biggest production RAC environment that I know of (in terms of nodes in the > cluster) is 48 - currently supported by some of the most talented DBAs on the