Posts by DBigot

2 posts • joined Thursday 12th June 2008 11:16 GMT

Posted in Sun's Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core

Posted Tuesday 24th June 2008 11:45 GMT

DBigot

IBM's Power6 slaughters world+HP in transaction cranking

Power6 = 5 GHz...+++

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/11/ibm_power6_tpcc/

If Oracle had a multithreaded architecture like DB2, maybe it could use more of those Niagara threads... 8-D

Posted in IBM's Power6 slaughters world+HP in transaction cranking

Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 11:40 GMT

DBigot

Tic, toc, tic toc ... BONG!! 8-|

Intel have been busy smugly lauding it over AMD with their Core CPUs and their "tic toc" development cycle, so it's gratifying that they've been put in their place.

Sucks be to Apple for backing the wrong horse. Even Microsoft ditched Intel to use some sort of Power deriviative in their XBox (as does the PS3 and Wii).

The other interesting item is that Oracle seems to be struggling to compete with DB2 in the performance stakes... (yet another irritatingly arrogant company).