Anyone Here running on x86-64 Hardware Yet

alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Sep 29 21:31:58 UTC 2004


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Chuck Carson wrote:

> 
> We are ready to dump Sun like a cooked-off hand grenade and have this grandure idea of moving to
> some of the AMD based Opteron 64-bit systems. Just curious if anyone is running this hardware yet?
> I noticed HP is already shipping these systems. The price tags on these system is just too good to
> be true. Based on a rough calculation, I can replace a $400k Sun Sparc III system with a pair of
> $30k AMD systems and get roughly the same system bandwidth. (I'm talking Oracle RAC here) Not too
> mention a significantly lower support cost and thus a much lower TCO in the long run. (well in the
> short run too for that matter) Also note that my administrative overhead costs will be much less
> for Linux as it is for Sun Sparc/Solaris.
> 
> We want to move our Oracle databases to the first supported release using the 2.6 kernel on the
> AMD Opteron 850 series procs. We also want to move our Weblogic servers to the same platform as
> well.
> 
> This is all in the next 18 months but I would love to here if anyone is trying this already.

I am running a HP zv5000z laptop that has an AMD64 3700+.  It works great 
with Fedora Core 3 test 2.

I will be building a couple of AMD64 servers tomorrow.




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