Re: Oracle on IBM Power7
- From: Greg Rahn <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:04:10 -0700
POWER SMT is a different beast from SPARC CMT (even Intel Nehalem has
SMT). CMT threads have a very low clock speed. POWER has a very high
clock speed (likely fastest on the market).
I'm doubtful you will be disappointed in POWER7. If you are - send
them my way :)
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Allen, Brandon
<Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi List, I just started on a project today to migrate to a new IBM P750
> running their new Power7 processor and I’m just curious if anyone else has
> had any hands-on experience with this new architecture yet, especially
> running Oracle Database on it? It has some new multithreading technology
> and I had a bad experience in the past with the multithreaded T-series (Cool
> Threads) architecture from Sun so I’m a little scared about going through
> that again. From what I’ve read online so far, it sounds like the Power7
> doesn’t suffer from that same problem but I won’t be fully comfortable until
> I’ve tested it myself.
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Regards,
Greg Rahn
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