Opterons do have excellent scaling properties for most of our applications. For some things sparcs, and particulary ultrasparc IV will benchmark better due to their giant l2 cache (16MB)
With 8 way opterons starting to peek into the market and dual core opteron cpu's sometime in 05 the future looks pretty intereesting as well...
joelja
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Chuck Carson wrote:
We are ready to dump Sun like a cooked-off hand grenade and have this grandure idea of moving to some of the AMD based Opteron 64-bit systems. Just curious if anyone is running this hardware yet? I noticed HP is already shipping these systems. The price tags on these system is just too good to be true. Based on a rough calculation, I can replace a $400k Sun Sparc III system with a pair of $30k AMD systems and get roughly the same system bandwidth. (I'm talking Oracle RAC here) Not too mention a significantly lower support cost and thus a much lower TCO in the long run. (well in the short run too for that matter) Also note that my administrative overhead costs will be much less for Linux as it is for Sun Sparc/Solaris.
We want to move our Oracle databases to the first supported release using the 2.6 kernel on the AMD Opteron 850 series procs. We also want to move our Weblogic servers to the same platform as well.
This is all in the next 18 months but I would love to here if anyone is trying this already.
Thx, rhugga
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