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

  • From: "Matthew Zito" <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse@xxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:58:09 -0500

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 1.0 gigahertz 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


-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse, Rich [mailto: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] 
        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)
        
        


        From an Oracle licensing perspective, 8 cores in the niagra
processor count as one processor for Oracle licenseing purposes.
        
        Thanks,
        Matt
        
        
        -----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)
        
        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?
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