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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...

I really liked John Fowler's answer to my question on how he's attracting new talent into Oracle - his answer will blow you away

I'm not convinced.

Oracle SuperCluster is Oracle's fastest general purpose Engineered System with zero overhead virtual machines - up to 32TB RAM to run largest in-memory Databases - 3x more than z13 mainframe!

what are customers doing with SuperCluster?

Exadata X5 gets away form 1/4 & 1/2 rack increments to per server increments for more linear scaling #datacenter Oracle brands it "Elastic" via @TonyBaer

"The new Exadata is available with 4 tiers of storage: DRAM, PCIe Flash, SSD Flash & high-capacity disk #datacenter Mix&match to the workload" via @tonybaer

Seemed obvious from the discussion that #Oracles focus is on #Intel systems and not #SPARC. If 2 sockets is where it is at, why consider a #T5-8 or #M6-32?

Oracle's primary launch today is about X5 which is based on 2-socket Xeon, however, X5 technology spans Exa* systems as well as Oracle SuperCluster.

adding elastic capability is "table stakes" for the new modern datacenter cloud infra

What can you do with an Elastic Configuration that you couldn’t do before?

@furrier: true, but after Larry's announcements, *new* table stakes are (a) best performance AND (b) lowest price. anything else is a bluff.

This is what I call "Investment Protection"!

Won't customers still have to "True-Up" by buying additional software licenses from the smaller core per socket servers to the newer bigger ones? 8 cores/socket is now 18 cores per socket.

Doesn't EMC put #XtremIO behind #VPlex to virtualize it and other storage? Can this #Oracle storage do that? #IBM #SVC and #EMC #VPlex seems like they give better investment protection to storage.

Performance of Exadata has always been amazing & now it's even higher at 1/4 millisecond response time.

@Brazingo: Classic - “Juan won the argument” LOL Larry just announced the All Flash Storage Server for High-Performance @Exadata VIA Donald Feinberg