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IBM is Tops, Once Again, in Technical Computing
The TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers was just released. IBM had numerous leading entries in this list. Let us count the ways. IBM had the: Most installed aggregate throughput with over 73.2 Petaflops out of 223 Petaflops (32.8%) HP had 14.7%. And Oracle. Oracle had .4%. Yes, that’s 0.4%. And IBM has […]
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Posted in Netezza, TOP500
Tagged ANL-Mira BG/Q, benchmark, benchmarking, Blue Gene, Graph500, Green500, IBM, iDataPlex, Juelich–JUQUEEN BG/Q, Linpack, LLNL-Sequoia BG/Q, Netezza, oracle, performance, petaflop, rmax, supercomputer, systems, TOP500, Vulcan
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The National Security on the T5-4 and Big Data
There’s been a lot of talk the last few days on Big Data and when it’s “right” to capture and use it. Some say it’s a real invasion of privacy. Others realistically point out that it is the best way to counter terrorism. Whichever you believe, the important thing is that Big Data is being […]
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Shoe Fetish or Benchmark Comparison ?
Last month I visited the Fashion Institute of Technology’s new exhibit “Shoe Obsession.” And for anyone who relishes shoes, this was the place to be. You enter the dark rooms and the glass cases are absolutely glowing in light, highlighting the SHOES. There’s Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Prada and many more, as far as the […]
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Posted in Netezza, Oracle, SPARC, SPARC T5, SPECjEnterprise2010
Tagged 11g, benchmark, benchmarking, DB2, IBM, Java, Netezza, oracle, performance, POWER7, SPARC, SPECjEnterprise, storage, systems, T5, Wall Street Journal, WEBLOGIC, WebSphere
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On Investing in the Cloud
It’s 7AM on a weekday morning and I’m in the middle of nowhere in the middle of Ohio. And as I drive by the faded barns, the cattle, and the one town with the giant McDonald’s and the adult bookstore, I start to laugh. I’m alone in the car. I’m supposed to be thinking deep […]
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Posted in cloud, Netezza
Tagged benchmark, benchmarking, briefing, center, cloud, computing, design, enhancement, hybrid, IBM, investment, Netezza, package, performance, POWER7, private, public, stock, systems
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On Fencing Claims and Real World Benchmarks
I am so intimately familiar with fencing it’s not funny. I’ve had épées, foils, and even sabers at my house. I’ve been to Junior Olympics (as a spectator, of course). My washer has seen fencing jackets, knickers, and a various assortment of brightly colored and very sweaty high socks. I grew up with a wooden […]
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Posted in fence claim, Netezza, SAP
Tagged 2-tier, 780, benchmark, benchmarking, briefing, center, design, enhancement, IBM, Netezza, oracle, package, performance, POWER7, SAP, SD, SPARC, systems, T5
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Moonshot vs. Metrics
Some of you may know that last week I was on some college visits. I love this time of info sessions, tours, cafeterias, classrooms, and dorms. I even got to stay in a real dorm one night. Funny, it was not any dorm I had ever been in, not at a college that I had […]
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Oracle’s SPARC T5 and M5 Benchmarks: Lather, Rinse, Repeat
I think I’ve said this before but one of my most absolute favorite movies is Groundhog Day. (Attention: spoiler is coming but since the fricking movie is from 1993 and most of us were old even way back then, I don’t think I will be ruining it for anyone.) Groundhog Day is an American comedy […]
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Oracle’s New T5 TPC-C: Where’s the SPARC?, Part II
With Oracle’s new SPARC server announcement today, we are all still waiting in anticipation (take your pick of Rocky Horror or Carole King) for something exciting. The just released TPC-C benchmark result surely is not. Here are some reasons why: The performance of the Oracle T5-8 (even with the use of Oracle database partitioning) is […]
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New Oracle M5 and T5 SAP Benchmark Results: No SPARC at all
If you were hoping for some Last Friday Night excitement from Oracle’s new SPARC servers announcement this week, we haven’t seen it yet. Oracle just this morning published two SAP SD 2-tier benchmark results, one on the M5-32 and one on the T5-8. The IBM POWER7+ with DB2 10 result from back in September was […]
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Cisco Virtualization, the Price You Pay
We were lucky enough recently to have two comparable Cisco SAP SD benchmark results published. The results used pretty much the same hardware, the same software, the same benchmark kit. The big difference was that one was virtualized and one was not. The performance metric for this benchmark is the number of SAP benchmark users. […]
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