Re: Quad Xeon vs. Dual Itanium

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:11:08PM -0800, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
> Size of the database is huge (e.g. every toll paid in New Jersey in the
> last 5 years)
> Available memory is huge (e.g. you buy a machine with 24 gigs of ram)
> Data bus bandwidth is huge (e.g. You buy an 8-way Opteron with 40 GB/sec
> bandwidth)
>
> The 32 bit machines cannot compete in these arenas.

I'm not supporting immense databases with this, but I am using 8- and
10- way UltraSPARC II boxes with 16 G of ram. I've been unable to
show a difference. There might _be_ one, mind, I just haven't shown
it.

A

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