On 08/ 4/10 02:26 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Paul Gress wrote:
Larry sees the profitable market as servers and databases. HPC, won't help
databases. HPC (high performance computers) basically are derived from servers
with additional components added to them to make them function as a
workstation, this is my interpretation, I'm sure some one will probably correct
me if I'm wrong.
There are certainly desktop High Performance Computing applications, but it's
much more common for HPC nodes to be servers of some description. Generally
they're biased towards large amounts of CPU power, and/or have multiple GPU
cards installed, to provide lots of computational speed.
Thanks for the added info. In you opinion, does HPC have any benefit
for database applications. I imagine the high CPU count will but the
GPU count won't, as in CUDA. If this is true, why is Oracle not
participating in any conferences or even updated their own web page
(http://wikis.sun.com/display/HPCCommunity/Home), last updated on Oct 2009..
Paul
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