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From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:23:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: SMP/cc Cluster description
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:16:13PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> > also some applications (i.e. databases) are such that nobody has really
> > been able to rewrite them into the shared nothing model (although oracle
> > has attempted it, from what I hear it has problems)
> >
> > David Lang
>
> OPS (Oracle Parallel Server) is shared nothing.
>

correct, and from what I have been hearing from my local database folks
it's significantly less efficiant then a large SMP machine (up intil you
hit the point where you just can't buy a machine big enough :-)

I'm interested in hearing more if you have had better experiances with it.

David Lang
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