On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:40 PM, James Hofmeister <
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> Hello Peter,
>
> http://www.oracle.com/features/hp/exadata.html
> Wouldn't it be nice to have MPE sitting atop this platform with Image
> intrinsics rewritten to access Oracle DB?
>
> Nothing special..


Did you follow the links?  I think the key phrase here is "designed to run
large, multi-terabyte data warehouses 10x faster than conventional data
warehouse systems".

From
http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/database-machine.html:

> The HP Oracle Database Machine is a complete system, including software,
> servers, and storage, designed to run large, multi-terabyte data warehouses
> 10x faster than conventional data warehouse systems. At the heart of the
> Database Machine, is the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server, which has smart
> storage software that offloads data-intensive query processing from Oracle
> Database 11*g* Servers and does the query processing closer to the data.
> The Database Machine runs Oracle Database 11*g* and Real Application
> Clusters, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and includes all the required Infiniband
> infrastructure and related hardware. Simple and fast to implement, the HP
> Oracle Database Machine has the power to tackle large-scale business
> intelligence problems immediately and can scale linearly as your data
> warehouse grows.


I think if this information is true, that there is an order-of-magnitude
improvement in speed, plus the fact that more machines can be just
plugged-in and Oracle will automatically balance databases with the newly
added hardware automatically, it is something special, IMNSHO.


> . This is a rack of standard x86 Linux servers; lots of
> internal disk.  The O.S. is Oracle's (OEL) Oracle Enterprise Linux.


Might note that Oracle Enterprise Linux is RHEL optimized to support Oracle.


>  If you
> have had a positive support experience with Oracle with their applications
> in the past, then this may work for you.  Support for all software, kernel,
> db, etc on the machine is from Oracle.


Not so good with the applications, quite good with the DB on the very rare
occasion, but then I was calling on behalf of Boeing.

Pete

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