On 8/7/2010 5:52 AM, Stefan Parvu wrote:
HPC is almost completely reserved for simulation these days, which means heavy
use by academic (and quasi-academic) organizations, with some government stuff
thrown in as as well. I'm also of course seeing usage for render farms. :-)
What are you talking about !? Think something simple and common which connects
everything: weather prediction !
yes - that's simulation. What I said. And who do you think has these big
weather simulation setups? Certainly not each TV station...
Oracle exiting HPC market shows clearly that they drive the hdw business of Sun
from a perspective of database house with no intimately knowledge of hardware
business nor understanding what means to invest in certain directions. Too bad.
Clear point Oracle is a business house not a technology house. Yep, looks like.
stefan
I wouldn't go that far. Certainly, Oracle has different priorities as to
which markets are worth investing in, and HPC doesn't seem to make there
required cost/profit cut.
Frankly, Sun was a technology house, and that's what got it into
trouble. Business pays the bills. Gotta actually sell product for a
profit to keep going. DEC had a lot of the same problems.
That said, I'm not overjoyed by many of Oracle's marketing/sales
decisions, as they seem to be overtly concerned with maximizing profit
per sale, not maximizing profit per sector. ( That is, they seem to want
to sell X things for Y profit each, even if you could sell 10X things
for 0.4Y profit each).
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Erik Trimble
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