Category: Information Technology
Oracle Database 12c – Released for Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux
Saturday, 29 June, 2013 23:32 Written by Brian B
Oracle Database 12c
Oracle Database 12c, the latest generation of the world’s most popular database, has been developed for the Cloud and will enable customers to make more efficient use of their IT resources while continuing to improve their users’ service levels. In addition to a raft of enhancements and new features, including a new architecture, Oracle Database 12c makes it easier for customers to take advantage of the Cloud through:
- Consolidating multiple databases with Oracle Multitenant
- Automatically optimizing data storage and compression according to usage patterns
- Providing continuous access with Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture
- Securing enterprise data with comprehensive defense-in-depth strategy
- Simplifying in-database analysis of Big Data
- Efficient database management using Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Download http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html
A SPARC CPU Overview: SPARC64-VII+ (M3), T3, T4, T5, M5, M10 – how do they compare?
Saturday, 15 June, 2013 22:29 Written by Brian B
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CPU Type |
SPARC64-VII+ (M3) | T3 | T4 | T5 | M5 | M10/SPARC64-X |
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Servers |
M3000, M4000, M5000, M8000, M9000, M9000-64 |
T3-1, T3-2 T3-4 |
T4-1, T4-2 T4-4 |
T5-2, T5-4 T5-8 |
M5-32 | M10-1, M10-4, M10-4S |
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CPU Core Codename |
Jupiter++ | S2 | S3 | S3 | S3 | Athena |
| CPU Clockfrequency | 2.66-3 GHz | 1.65 GHz | 2.85-3GHz | 3.6 GHZ | 3.6 GHZ | 2.8-3 GHz |
| Number of Cores per socket | 4 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 6 | 16 |
| Number of Threads per core | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| Minimum amount of RAM, number of sockets, and threads per Server |
8GB 1 socket 8 threads |
8GB 1 socket 128 threads |
16GB 1 socket 64 threads |
256GB 2 sockets 256 threads |
1TB 8 sockets 384 threads |
32GB 1 socket 4 threads (2 cores activated from 16) |
| Maximum amount of RAM, number of sockets and threads per Server | 4TB 64 sockets 512 threads |
128 GB 4 sockets 512 threads |
2TB 4 sockets 256 threads |
4TB 8 sockets 1024 threads |
32 TB 32 sockets 1536 threads |
32TB 64 sockets 2048 threads |
| L3 Cache | no L3$ (12MB L2$ though!) |
no L3$ | 4MB | 8MB | 48MB | no L3$ (24MB shared L2$ though!) |
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Virtualization supported |
Dynamic Domains (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
Hard Domains, LDoms (and Zones) |
LDoms (and Zones) |
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CPU architecture (ISA) |
sun4u | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v | sun4v |
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OS supported |
Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Solaris 10, 11 | Control Domain: S11 only. Guest Domains: Solaris 10, 11 |
Solaris 10, 11 |
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noteworthy features |
electronically separated domains | 512 threads in 2010! | First S3 based, single thread AND throughput | 1024 threads in 8 RU |
Mainframe class,
Mission critical
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Software on Chip |
Oracle and Dell form partnership.
Saturday, 08 June, 2013 13:06 Written by Brian B
This week, Dell and Oracle announced a partnership unique to both companies.Dell would offer Oracle software on its machines and would resell Oracle services.The offerings will include Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, as well as Oracle’s database, middleware and applications.