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I heard at a conference from some HP exec, that they sold loads of HP Integrity servers to Asian customers mainly so that they could host MS SQL Server on those
by reallydontask 10y ago
I heard at a conference from some HP exec, that they sold loads of HP Integrity servers to Asian customers mainly so that they could host MS SQL Server on those big boxes, which I found surprising
- krylon 10y agoOn the one hand, IIRC, Windows Server on Itanium was almost useless for anything but running SQL Server. On the other hand, I think I remember reading a couple of years ago that per CPU core, Xeons were already beating Itaniums in performance for database workloads. The main advantage apparently is that you can stuff lots of CPUs into an Integrity server, but mostly a cluster of smaller x86_64 machines has a good chance of being faster and cheaper.
- yuhong 10y agoI wonder if any Opteron node controllers caught on. The fun thing is that by the time Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 was released for Itanium, AMD had already released the Opteron, but the B1 stepping had plenty of problems which was probably why they didn't release Athlon 64 until the C0 stepping.
- coredog64 10y agoFor the longest time, Microsoft was recommending Itanic to customers that needed the absolute best SQL Server performance.
- Jweb_Guru 10y agoDatabases that can afford to microoptimize for architecture really benefit from chips like Itanium, so it makes sense.