On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Paul Gress wrote: > 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 think generally it's more useful for highly parallel, computationally-intensive applications -- for example, scientific modeling, raytracing, finite element analysis, etc. Databases tend to be more I/O intensive. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
