Re: SMP/cc Cluster description

David Lang
2001-12-07T04:48:52Z

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:16:13PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> > also some applications (i.e. databases) are such that nobody has really
> > been able to rewrite them into the shared nothing model (although oracle
> > has attempted it, from what I hear it has problems)
> >
> > David Lang
>
> OPS (Oracle Parallel Server) is shared nothing.
>

correct, and from what I have been hearing from my local database folks
it's significantly less efficiant then a large SMP machine (up intil you
hit the point where you just can't buy a machine big enough :-)

I'm interested in hearing more if you have had better experiances with it.

David Lang