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[Discuss] Surprises at the June Supercomputing conference

Subject: [Discuss] Surprises at the June Supercomputing conference
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:51:35 -0400
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On Jun 21, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> 
> Are we reading the same tea leaves?
> They're betting the bank on Exadata and Cloud.
> Which is Exadata built with? Xeon, not Sparc.
> Cloud is always x86, alas.

Oracle added SPARC to Exalogic early this year, the T3-B1.

It's only a matter of time before Oracle offers a SPARC-based Exadata appliance.

--Rich P.

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- [Discuss] Surprises at the June Supercomputing conference
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- [Discuss] Surprises at the June Supercomputing conference
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