Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Dec 7th, 2004 @ 10:50 AM | 45,233 Views | 18 Comments
Soner Terek takes us behind an HP SuperDome computer. A terabyte of RAM. 2,500 hard drives. 64 64-bit processors.

Then Jamie Maclannan talks about data mining and gives us a demo.

This is the fourth, and final, part of the SQL Server team tour. Here's the other three parts:

Part I
Part II
Part III
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What's the estimated cost for the whole machine (Superdome + hard drives)?

When we did the TPC benchmark with this machine it was $5.1 mill, you can get the disclosure doc here:

http://tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=103082701

However this was 18 months ago, prices have come down for most stuff, but the box now handles 1TB of memory instead of 1/2 TB of memory. The procs are now 2GHz instead of 1.5Ghz but you get the idea
Thanks for the link! There's a lot of great info in the full disclosure report.
byron
byron
strike1
The Channel 9 Team wrote:
Soner Terek takes us behind an HP SuperDome computer. A terabyte of RAM. 2,500 hard drives. 64 64-bit processors.

Then Jamie Maclannan talks about data mining and gives us a demo.

This is the fourth, and final, part of the SQL Server team tour. Here's the other three parts:

Part I
Part II
Part III

Video length: 00:15:31.



I lOve gigabits, lots of storage and terrabytes!
byron
byron
strike1
TimP wrote:

What's the estimated cost for the whole machine (Superdome + hard drives)?




It costs, but its needed!
rasx
rasx
Programmer/Analyst III, Emperor of String.Empty
I get it: data mining is better distinguished from OLAP where I'm standing. AI... AI...
pdrg
pdrg
Who Was Prouder?
with a 2500 disk array, how often do you have to swap drives out?  I heard archive.org have aprox 6%pa disk failure and wondered if you'd found that consistent?

thx Smiley
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