Nope. I'm talking about the one at Bentonville, AR.

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 19:09 +1100, Alan McDonald wrote:
> > This type of usage requires heavy transaction processing power and
> fast
> > buses. You don't find it on WIntel class hardware, even clustered.
> You
> > won't even find it on midrange hardware. Each "CPU" on these boxes
> is
> > actually an array of CPU's that is comparable in actual throughput
> to an
> > array of 10 2 GHz P4's. Boxes may run with from 1 to 64 of these
> CPU
> > arrays.
> >
> > The DBMS splits the database across many files on many volumes.
> > Typically, data and indexes are configured reside on different
> physical
> > DASD units to minimize I/O thrashing (remember how often this
> question
> > comes up in the architecture list?).
> >
> > There are only a few hundred distributed connections. Processing
> within
> > the hosting hardware boundary has an arbitrary number of connections
> > that are pooled by the transactioning system, that is in turn shared
> by
> > terminals and internal processes.
> >
> > The very heavy usage systems have midrange feeder systems at a few
> > thousand local collection points. The minis funnel compressed data
> > streams through dedicated connections to the national headquarters
> as
> > fast as they can, saturating the telco's fiber optic connection at
> peak
> > times of the year.
> >
> > You can run linux as a guest OS on these boxes. Vertical
> scalability pf
> > linux is accomplished by allowing multiple linux instances to run
> > concurrently as guest OS's on separate partitions in the machine.
> >
> > DASD has gigabytes of cache, and is connected by multi-gigabit fiber
> > optic.
> >
>
> don't suppose you're talking about the system they have at Langley
> Virginia
> are you?
> Alan
>
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