Answer is simple. HPC business is negative margin, and Oracle don't do
any negative margin business.
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On 05-Aug-10, at 1:14 AM, 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 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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