Comments on: Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:59:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: UK https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comment-229352 Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:46:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413#comment-229352 In reply to Cristian Vasile.

Thanks for the link.
It seems HPE bought TidalScale

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tidalscale_softwaredefined-activity-7010741062465974272-7IZ1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

in December 2022

https://www.nassi.com/

…let’s see, what remains…

Mr. Morgan wrote in the article:
“If software-defined NUMA clustering finally does take off – and we think it could be an important tool in the composable infrastructure toolbox – then TidalScale could become an acquisition target.”

3 months later:
Sold!

…so I could irconically say:
“Thank you Mr. Morgan for making HPE aware of this…now it’s gone…” 🙂
…or:
“Good view onto the market. Well done Sir.”

->Someone in the comments mentions Popcorn Linux and the Beowulf Cluster, but according to the list at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image
(I normally do not use WikiPedia, as it might present in 5 minutes anything completely different as it does at the moment, and, neither of both might be true…but in this case, as a short startup…)

there is not much left…

]]> By: Cristian Vasile https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comment-228824 Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:34:13 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413#comment-228824 In reply to UK.

Sure.
WHY AREN’T THERE SOFTWARE-DEFINED NUMA SERVERS EVERYWHERE?
https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/12/why-arent-there-software-defined-numa-servers-everywhere/

]]> By: UK https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comment-228450 Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:52:18 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413#comment-228450 Does anybody here know or use a working and still supported Single System Image Cluster solution, preferably Open Source?

]]> By: Paul Berry https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comment-228048 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:45:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413#comment-228048 In reply to Eric Olson.

vaxcluster invented a whole ton of incredible HA and distributed systems technology that stood above a lot of its peers for decades. It did so with 32MB of ram or less. However, the rest of the world has now copied those successes, and the technology you remember from vaxcluster has been pretty well adopted by lots of the things we’re all used to: kubernetes, kafka, opensearch, etc.
The one thing you really can’t get in the land of open-source, is a truly huge-scale distributed sql database. I guess that’s why oracle and company are able to keep charging so much money for them.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comment-228030 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:32:17 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413#comment-228030 In reply to John S.

Because the full price list was not available yet, and that was the comparison that I was given as an example.

]]> By: John S https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comment-228029 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:11:09 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413#comment-228029 I think you have a typo in the last paragraph, where you have EPU instead of ECPU. And I’m interested why you didn’t scale the numbers to match the capacity for a simpler comparison there?

And knowing how Oracle loves to make money, the price drop is stunning, and just goes to show how much consolidation they’re getting on the backend. Note how it doesn’t talk at all about dedupe or compression on the storage side, and I strongly suspect they’re using that as well.

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comment-228028 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:29:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413#comment-228028 In reply to Eric Olson.

Because it doesn’t sound cool enough.

]]> By: Eric Olson https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comment-228010 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 05:01:27 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413#comment-228010 Somehow I recall a VAXcluster being much more technologically advanced than anything we have today. It could be my memory playing tricks: somehow carving up large systems into virtual machines has always seemed much less interesting than gluing multiple machines together to make a bigger one.

Since exascale is tied to a fixed power of ten that will change, why not just say cloudscale from the beginning?

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