Comments on: Multi Core Chips and Search Performance http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/10/multi-core-chips-and-search-performance/ by Stephen E. Arnold Thu, 24 May 2012 16:47:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jürgen Wagner http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/10/multi-core-chips-and-search-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-28689 Jürgen Wagner Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:32:54 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=2933#comment-28689 Ha! You have customers who are not price-sensitive? In fact, Sun hardware with SPARC processors is not the cheapest... however, the two systems I mentioned are x64 servers and pricewise rather competitive in the market. If you look for comparable systems from Dell, HP or IBM, you'd pay more. Noname boxes are not an option. The Sun x64 boxes are well-priced, quite performant, and have some nifty management gadgets. The Sun x64 boxes *are* commodity machines. As for decent search performance on standard hardware, I would only count two companies in: FAST and Exalead. Cheers, --Jürgen Ha! You have customers who are not price-sensitive?

In fact, Sun hardware with SPARC processors is not the cheapest… however, the two systems I mentioned are x64 servers and pricewise rather competitive in the market. If you look for comparable systems from Dell, HP or IBM, you’d pay more. Noname boxes are not an option. The Sun x64 boxes are well-priced, quite performant, and have some nifty management gadgets. The Sun x64 boxes *are* commodity machines.

As for decent search performance on standard hardware, I would only count two companies in: FAST and Exalead.

Cheers,
–Jürgen

]]> By: Stephen E. Arnold http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/10/multi-core-chips-and-search-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-28586 Stephen E. Arnold Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:13:05 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=2933#comment-28586 Jurgen Wagner, Sun hardware can be expensive, right? The search vendors that impress me are those who deliver solid performance on commodity hardware; for example, Google and Exalead. I used to be fond of Sun equipment. We used it for the original FirstGov.gov index of the US Federal government content. But the certification delays, the slow delivery of some devices, and the cost made me think commodity servers. You are fortunate that your customers are not price sensitive. Stephen Arnold, November 10, 2008 Jurgen Wagner,

Sun hardware can be expensive, right? The search vendors that impress me are those who deliver solid performance on commodity hardware; for example, Google and Exalead. I used to be fond of Sun equipment. We used it for the original FirstGov.gov index of the US Federal government content. But the certification delays, the slow delivery of some devices, and the cost made me think commodity servers. You are fortunate that your customers are not price sensitive.

Stephen Arnold, November 10, 2008

]]> By: Jürgen Wagner http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/11/10/multi-core-chips-and-search-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-28569 Jürgen Wagner Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:10:43 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=2933#comment-28569 Well, that's why we found the Sun Fire X4600 (http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/) or Sun Fire X4440 (http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4440/) to be by far superior to other systems in the market. With properly designed search platforms like FAST that rely on numerous concurrent processes, and with high-performance RAM access (disks are usually not an issue in these servers), performance scales extremely well. A 32-core system with fast disks and sufficient RAM is a nice building block for demanding Enterprise and Federal Intelligence applications. Cheers, --Jürgen Well, that’s why we found the Sun Fire X4600 (http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/) or Sun Fire X4440 (http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4440/) to be by far superior to other systems in the market. With properly designed search platforms like FAST that rely on numerous concurrent processes, and with high-performance RAM access (disks are usually not an issue in these servers), performance scales extremely well. A 32-core system with fast disks and sufficient RAM is a nice building block for demanding Enterprise and Federal Intelligence applications.

Cheers,
–Jürgen

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