Friday September 18, 2009 Oracle and Sun showcase 'world's fastest' database machine
While you might not consider this to be HPC, it sure sound like high performance computing to me ;-) Oracle and Sun have introduced the "world's first" online transaction processing (OLTP) database machine.
Sun provides the hardware with:
50% Faster CPUs - Intel Xeon 5500 Series (Nehalem) processors
50% Faster Disks - 600 GB SAS Disks at 6 Gigabits/second
300% Faster Memory - DDR3 memory
125% More Memory - 72 Gigabytes per Database Server
100% Faster Network - 40 Gigabits/second InfiniBand
Raw disk capacity of 100 TB per Exadata V2
Exadata Smart Flash Cache for transaction processing and mixed workloads
Oracle brings the software:
Features the latest generation of innovation - Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Hybrid columnar compression for 10-50 times greater data compression
Scans on compressed data for even faster query execution
Storage Indexes to further reduce disk I/Os
Offloading of query processing to storage using Smart Scans
Smart scan of Data Mining models in storage servers
According to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Exadata 2 is the "fastest machine" for both data warehousing and online transaction processing. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [Hot Documents] ( September 18, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
