Joan & All, Sequent First to Demonstrate Scalability of Windows NT with Oracle Parallel Server on Non-Uniform Memory Access Server
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At Intel's OOW booth (No. 1461), Sequent will be demonstrating an NT-based cluster of four dual-quad NUMA-Q 2000 server nodes (linking 32 Pentium Pro microprocessors). Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 data center servers have already achieved strong market momentum in high-end Unix implementations since the first systems were shipped in December. The preview also highlights the capability of Oracle Parallel Server to scale across multiple nodes. The future implementation of Virtual Interface Architecture, an emerging high-speed communications interface for clusters of servers and workstations, will improve NUMA-Q 2000 performance and scalability in such configurations.
This is the latest illustration of the ongoing efforts to converge NT with the existing high-end (enterprise-level) Unix and 390 systems, in terms of scalability. As has been pointed out by some (myself included), there is no technological barrier to this - actually less than there was for Unix and 390, for NT is simply adopting most of the same techniques and subsystems as have been already engineered for scalability on these existing platforms. What is required is time and money - which Microsoft has much of.
Oracle, as the current enterprise-level leader in DBMS platform and applications software, can benefit from this strong area of growth. At the same time, it benefits its nemesis, Microsoft, by proliferating the Windows platform.
Programming makes strange bedfellows. < g >
Best regards,
Arno |
