Euan Garden - Tour of SQL Server Team (Part II)

What's the estimated cost for the whole machine (Superdome + hard drives)?
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.
TimP wrote:What's the estimated cost for the whole machine (Superdome + hard drives)?
pdrg wrote: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
it's entirely FABULOUS!! so good to see what it done and the process used for testing. When i saw the amount of hdrives & RAM, i reminded me this:
http://salle.ccs.usherbrooke.ca/webcast/index.html
After seeing that i have a question, for SQL server 2000 were such important tests done or it's a new philosophy to ask lots of real users to work in real conditions to see the weekness of SQL S?
EuanG wrote: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