datacenter

in memory is sexy but it still has latency..how bout in-processor memory

@furrier unfortunately not much volume to work with in L2 cache. but increasing memory bandwidth, compression and SIMD operations should take care of a lot

#SPARC has far superior memory I/O bandwidth, fastest in industry/CPU-#SPARC M7 will be the in-memory database monster!

@Phil_Oracle but when will it be GA? Was hoping for some more info on that today

Larrry said to stay tuned! Sign up for Software in Silicon #Cloud, lets you test #Oracle's new #SPARC technology http://www.oracle.co...

Doesn't #IBM #Power8 have the greatest memory bandwidth at 192 GB/s?

@PowerMan_SIS wow, impressive (and I did not know that). But #power8 maxes out at 512GB while the M7 chips drives 2TB of memory (and honestly I don't know the bw for that)

Not quite right, I believe #Power8 has 192 GB/s per socket with 512 GB of physical memory or 2 TB for the #IBM 1 & 2 socket Scale-Out servers. 230 GB/s and 1 TB/socket for up to 3,680GB/s & 16 GB for the 16 socket servers.

Even though #M7 is stated to have 2TB Ram per socket, that is for 32 cores. How many memory channels & controllers to drive all of that? #Power8 w 12 cores / socket drives 1 TB w Dual MC & 4 Mem Channels per socket using 230 GB/s to boot per socket.

Power S824 4xCPU measured bandwidth = 294.5GB/s =74 GB/s per CPU not 230 GB/s, SPARC T5-4 measured @ 321GB/s = 80GB/s & proven with STREAM, SPARC M7 will be more than 2x Have IBM publish P8! http://www.cs.virgin...

can you elaborate - what are the implications for DBAs?

@dvellante you can pay db licenses for just the subset of cores you need, pay as you grow and use the rest of the capacity for general purpose VMs. supercluster is exadata++

@dvellante also, if you are migrating from older sparc systems you have the choice of simply forklifting the old systems 1-to-1 or migrate them to the exadata stuff. all on the same box

have you seen flash also reduce the # of cores you need to deploy? And hence DB license and maint fees?

@dvellante and you also get the most memory per CPU socket on the market

A lot of the Oracle Engineered Systems "secret sauce" tech is in the Exa storage cells. #unique competitive advantage

@dvellante yes and no. modern cpus can drive an insane amount of work, bottleneck has typically been storage and io bandwidth. flash (and large memory) is pushing the frontier back towards CPUs

and actually, I believe that CPU memory I/O bandwidth is becoming a challenge especially as we move to in-memory Database & applications

If the current #Intel & #SPARC servers have roughly 30 - 60 GB/s of memory bandwidth as Juan said, can we expect #M7 to have something more competitive like #Power8 192 GB/s per socket?

Just to keep you honest, #Power8 delivers 1 TB/socket today which is what the M6-32 offers.

Power8 has only 16 dimm slots/CPU & 2 memory controllers requiring 2x greater dimm size to match SPARC M6 1TB/socket having 4 memory controllers & 2x more dimm slots/CPU. larger dimms always higher $/GB

Looking forward to it! John Fowler is Executive Vice President of Systems.

Go John!

John Fowler is boss on tech!! #techathlete

fowler has a deep historical perspective on this biz

John is Da #Boss on #technology and #innovation

Fowler meets with Larry weekly to talk hardware business - it's huge weapon for Oracle

Larry is the master of the "long game" says John Fowler EVP Systems

"It's a lot harder when the engineering involves contracts and non-disclosures" John Fowler talks about the Oracle's engineered approach

"Oracle is investing to have unique value proposition"

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John Fowler has hired over 900 engineers from the top schools around the U.S.

john fowler explains the engineering systems on @forbes http://www.forbes.co...

Larry Ellison reminds me of Larry Bird...Talks smack but can back it up with results

Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison going on shortly live feed is here http://live.silicona... #oracle

Several years ago IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said doesn't worry about HP, he worries about Orcl b/c they spend on R&D

You can watch Larry Ellison live at http://siliconangle....

This is about SUN now firmly established as Oracle Hardware the way Larry wanted it imho

this reminds me about my conversation with Andy Jassy #AWS integrated decision from day one the key to building awesome platform

Yeah, did you see latest Oracle Q2FY15 financials? R&D is roughly 14% of revenue with a 9% increase from last year. That’s more than 2x of IBM on per revenue basis, 5x more than HP

I heard at the last Oracle financials they were spending 12% of revenue on R&D, not 14% as Phil Dunn states. If IBM is twice as big as Oracle that negates the 2X statement does it not?

You spoke of enterprise big data. What is the difference between enterprise big data and big data? Isn't it all the same?

why do I need Oracle Big Data, could I not just keep the data in hadoop

@Radu43 Most people are putting data that is either new or unmanaged on hadoop and combine it with data in their operational systems. The operational systems and warehouses are on Oracle.

@JillSHulme And @neilmendelson is gone... heading on theCUBE next

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Larry's gone to the Compute, Software, Storage, spreadsheet

@larryellison > "To our customers, we’ll negotiate”
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he is loving it!.

@larryellison > "We’re engineering all of our components so they work together”
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