Re: Going multicore, Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores)

  • From: "Vlad Sadilovskiy" <vlovsky@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:32:00 -0500

Thanks to all for help. As I understood, 1 proc with 8 cores in T2000 at
1GHz could even be better than 4 CPU at 1.7GHz in V440 performance wise. Is
that correct?

Thanks again,

- Vladimir


On 3/27/06, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Yep, exactly right:
>
> For the purpose of counting the number of processors which require
> licensing for a Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor with 4, 6 or 8 cores at 
> 1.0gigahertz or 8 cores at
> 1.2 gigahertz for only those servers specified on the Sun Server Table
> which can be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts , "n" cores shall be
> determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .25.
>
> We're getting closer and closer to "power units" all the time
>
> Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx <Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx>]
> Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 2:49 PM
> To: Matthew Zito; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Going multicore, Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores)
>
> Isn't that "2" CPUs for an 8-core?  Or did the licensing change yet
> again?  It was recently .25xCore for SPARC 8-ways.
>
> Rich
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Matthew Zito [mailto:mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>]
>         Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:40 PM
>         To: ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx; Jesse, Rich; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         Subject: RE: Going multicore, Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores)
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>         From an Oracle licensing perspective, 8 cores in the niagra
> processor count as one processor for Oracle licenseing purposes.
>
>         Thanks,
>         Matt
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>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Michael
> McMullen
>         Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 2:32 PM
>         To: Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         Subject: Re: Going multicore, Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores)
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>         MessageCan you elaborate on "use all those cores
> simultaneously"? Would a
>         parallel query not use all the cores, or heavy concurrent access
> by users?
>         Imagine the licensing cost if you had two or three of these in a
> rac?
>         --
>         //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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