Timothy Prickett Morgan over at The Register has penned an article entitled, “Fake server beats real server in web test”. The gist of the article is that VMWare has released results showing that virtual Linux servers running on VMWare’s ESX hypervisor have garnered the highest single-server performance for a 16-core machine, and significantly beat out [...]
After responding to Jeremy’s message on Oracle-L, it got me reading his blog. On one post, he asks if OCFS2 has a future given the rumored introduction of “ASMfs“, and if it’s worth considering for various purposes, specifically:
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database binaries (vs local files or NFS)
diag top (11g) or admin tree (10g) (vs local files or NFS)
archived [...]
There was an interesting post to the Oracle-L mailing list today about using OS packages in cluster database environments. A quick snippet from the post:
So, I apologize upfront for the title, but I couldn’t resist. Plura Processing came to my attention through my participation in the Cloud Computing Form as someone with a genuinely interesting idea – harvesting browser time spent on websites to process compute cycles on behalf of third-parties.