Re: [TCLUG:19672] VALinux vs Compaq, and OT: statistical inference

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

yes.. i'll agree with that.. and that's what I was saying.. if you need
preformance on a database like oracle.. you need to go with a full blown
server box like an alpha, or a sparc.  web serving however, can be done
easily on intel type stuff.. and can be scaled much better by throwing a
cluster of servers at it..  where a bunch of cheap hardware is more
reliable, and faster than one big server

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:

> Yeah...if you really want high-performance, reliability and a clear
> upgrade path there's this company called Sun...UE10k anybody?
> 
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Scott Dier wrote:
> 
> > * Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net> [000719 08:08]:
> > > intel's off the shelf stuff.  they use something called "crossbar
> > > switch" which allows DRAM requests to be interlaced to multiple dimm's at
> > > a time.. which is really cool.
> > 
> > Read: Neat name for something that many high-end hardware machines do.
> > SEE: Many high-end non-x86 sgi machines for instance.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org> #nicnac@efnet 
> > http://www.ringworld.org/  finger:dieman@destiny.ringworld.org
> > 
> > Wait. Watch. Wonder.
> > 	-J
> > 
> > Fight collective stupidity, blackhole cybercreek.com
> > 
> 
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