Re: Sybase MPP shows excellent scalability to 128 CPUs

Obviously you are not implementing a MASSIVE data warehouse! In <480nh3$io6@peg.apc.org> gordonh@acslink.net.au (Gordon E. Hooker) writes: > >Who cares!!!!! > >>SYBASE ACHIEVES NEAR-PERFECT SCALABILITY ON ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST >>COMPUTERS: 128 PROCESSOR IBM/RS6000 SP >> >>Sybase MPP Demonstrates Unlimited Scalability for the Worlds Most >>Demanding Data Warehouse and Massive Decision Support Systems >> >>EMERYVILLE, CA, November 7, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise >>Client/Server Company, today announced results of a test conducted at >>the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). Sybase MPP >>(previously called Sybase Navigation Server) demonstrated near-perfect >>scalability on an IBM RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel (SP) system using >>128 high performance RISC processors. Sybase MPP is Sybases scalable, >>open parallel database for unlimited scalability for large decision >>support applications. >> >>The demonstration consisted of a credit-card database containing a 100 >>million row table distributed across all of the processors. A >>Powerbuilder graphical interface displayed 12 different queries >>running against the 100 million-row database. A variety of database >>queries were performed, including a variety of complex queries and >>traditional credit card queries for gathering information on account >>balances, summaries by customer, and summaries by region. Sybase MPP >>demonstrated near-linear scalability from one to 16, 64, and 128 nodes, >>and scalability of over 99 percent across the range of 128 processors. [snip]