Re: Which SMP HW gives best performance for DSA 7.x Engine

I vote for 4 IBM R30 AIX 4.1.4 to be specific. If you can afford 8 get it! I had my engine pumping in testing one night and was glad to see all of my PDQ tuninig effort not be in vain. The only system on the box is new developed so the programs that would really use this are not ready yet, but from my early preview the Online engine is! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheryl Kendricks Internet:cherylk@prod1.jcdc.doleta.gov OR cherylk@gwysmtp.jcdc.doleta.gov DTSI, Inc. Database Administrator - DOL Job Corps San Marcos, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Apostolos Varnas wrote: } Hi all, } } one of our clients is interested in finding out under which SMP } (2 or 4 processors) HW the DSA 7.x Engine gives best performance.He is } evaluating solutions from IBM,DEC,HP,Sun but is also open to other HW } Vendors. } Apart from TPC Numbers I am interested in your personal experiences.Please } email any responses only to me in order to save bandwidth and I will } post a summary of it in the c.d.i. } } TIA } } Tolis } } +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ } | V+K Relational Solutions email: tvarnas@compulink.gr | } | Deligiorgi 26 tvarnas@orbit.de | } | 546 42 Thessaloniki Voice: (30) 31 820270 | } | Greece Fax: (30) 31 865463 | } +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ } }