April 20, 2010 at 8:53 pm
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April 20, 2010 at 10:27 pm
[font="Courier New"]Just a minor nit: the x86 and x64 platforms are the CISC processors, while SPARC and POWER are RISC designs.
Other than that, it makes sense that Wall Street would be exploring the same path that the super-computing community has gone down.[/font]
April 21, 2010 at 4:18 am
william-700725 (4/20/2010)
[font="Courier New"]Other than that, it makes sense that Wall Street would be exploring the same path that the super-computing community has gone down.[/font]
Sony would love that! Are you ready for the Slashdot headline of "Playstation 3 Sales Grow 500%"? 😀
Speaking of x64, what apps would big businesses like the NYSE run that still require x86 support? I'm asking because I work at a (relatively) small company of +-40 of we have to use many third party apps (like tax and payroll) that don't have native x64 builds or if they do, we don't know about it.
April 21, 2010 at 9:10 am
Of course, the devil's in the details. What they don't say is what they use each class of server for. Just because the NYSE has requirements of low latency for some operations doesn't mean that they have that requirement for *all* operations. And, for those servers that don't have that kind of SLA, they can use cheaper hardware.
April 22, 2010 at 10:11 am
I've been a Teradata user over the past year and I've never seen a SQL Server run anywhere near as fast on large data sets. On the other hand, all my SQL Servers have been x32. I'd like to know the opinion of anyone out there who has extensive knowledge of both!
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