RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-28 Thread Grant Allen
Title: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?



Oracle 
confirmed at the road show event I went to yesterday that "pricing will not 
change".  Let's see how many people are happy to buy 100's of EE CPU 
licences :-)
 
And my 
favourite bit?  The new OEM is all singing, all dancing ... but must be 
hosted by 10gAS.  (Though that's probably the case with EM under 9i .. 
just don't use it often enough to know).
 
Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)
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S Does it mean that a 
network with 100 computers of 1 cpu each is almost equivalent to 100 cpu giant computer 
?? -ak 


RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-28 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
I don't know... It's definitely an interesting concept though, isn't it?

Check this out:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1560024
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S Does it mean that a network with 100 computers of 1 cpu each is
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> Rich,
>
> That really isn't 'grid', but I think you know that.
>
> GC essentially makes a network look like one great big
> box, with the cross platform functionality included.
>
> In the immortal words of Scott McNeally:
> "The network is the computer".  :)
>
> Don't know if he said if first.  John Brunner was likely
> the first to get the concept in print.
>
> Jared
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:09, Jesse, Rich wrote:
> > Some of us here at work have been using "grid computing" to compile 
> > programs...
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
> >
> > Standard disclaimers apply (e.g. all machines must have same 
> > versions of copmiler, same architecture, etc. to avoid problems).
> >
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:19 AM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> > >
> > >
> > > Dick, Jared
> > >If you look at the big picture, 20 years ago the idea of a PC 
> > > with the throughput of a mainframe was laughable. Not so laughable

> > > today. Large systems use many of the same components as PCs. 
> > > Whether this means the grid
> > > is more than hype remains to be seen.  But I suspect Larry
> > > would prefer you
> > > spent your money on Oracle licensing instead of hardware. And
> > > this may be an
> > > area where Oracle can keep ahead of the open-source folks.
> > >
> > > Dennis Williams
> > --
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-28 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?






Oracle will probably think so with their per CPU pricing.


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S Does it mean that a network with 100 computers of 1 cpu each is almost

equivalent to 100 cpu giant computer ??

-ak





Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-28 Thread AK
S Does it mean that a network with 100 computers of 1 cpu each is almost
equivalent to 100 cpu giant computer ??
-ak

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> Rich,
>
> That really isn't 'grid', but I think you know that.
>
> GC essentially makes a network look like one great big
> box, with the cross platform functionality included.
>
> In the immortal words of Scott McNeally:
> "The network is the computer".  :)
>
> Don't know if he said if first.  John Brunner was likely
> the first to get the concept in print.
>
> Jared
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:09, Jesse, Rich wrote:
> > Some of us here at work have been using "grid computing" to compile
> > programs...
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
> >
> > Standard disclaimers apply (e.g. all machines must have same versions of
> > copmiler, same architecture, etc. to avoid problems).
> >
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:19 AM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> > >
> > >
> > > Dick, Jared
> > >If you look at the big picture, 20 years ago the idea of a
> > > PC with the
> > > throughput of a mainframe was laughable. Not so laughable today. Large
> > > systems use many of the same components as PCs. Whether this
> > > means the grid
> > > is more than hype remains to be seen.  But I suspect Larry
> > > would prefer you
> > > spent your money on Oracle licensing instead of hardware. And
> > > this may be an
> > > area where Oracle can keep ahead of the open-source folks.
> > >
> > > Dennis Williams
> > -- 
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-28 Thread Jesse, Rich
I know, I know, it's a bit of a stretch, but I think the idea's the same --
subsets of work divided between multiple machines.  It's just that distcc is
implemented at a much higher level than what's probably considered "grid".
The benefit is that it's much easier to implement.  The downside is that
it's usefulness is much more limited.  But in this case, I think it works
well, at least according to my co-workers who use it.

Perhaps grid-wise Matt would care to comment?

Gridfullessnessly yours,
Rich


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> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> 
> 
> Rich,
> 
> That really isn't 'grid', but I think you know that.
> 
> GC essentially makes a network look like one great big
> box, with the cross platform functionality included.
> 
> In the immortal words of Scott McNeally:
> "The network is the computer".  :)
> 
> Don't know if he said if first.  John Brunner was likely
> the first to get the concept in print.
> 
> Jared
> 
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:09, Jesse, Rich wrote:
> > Some of us here at work have been using "grid computing" to compile
> > programs...
> > 
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
> > 
> > Standard disclaimers apply (e.g. all machines must have 
> same versions of
> > copmiler, same architecture, etc. to avoid problems).
> > 
> > 
> > Rich
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Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-28 Thread Yechiel Adar
Well, they did not come straight out and say we invented the grid.
They did say we can help you to use and manage grid computers and our
software can use the grid.
They will have software to add/remove computers from a grid, clone
computers, propagate changes etc.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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> I would imagine that the perspectice of grid computing
> offered at OOW would be somewhat Oracle centric.
>
> Grid computing does not require Oracle - it is, here
> comes an overused buzzword, a paradigm shift.
>
> There, I've said it. I think this is the first time
> I've ever used that term, and it may have even been
> properly used.
>
> That said, grid computing is the latest hype cycle, and
> time will tell if there's anything to it.
>
> Jared
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:59, Yechiel Adar wrote:
> > Hello Tom
> >
> > >From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC,
with
> > options to add or remove servers as you go along.
> > It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers
etc.
> > There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also separated
> > databases.
> >
> > Yechiel Adar
> > Mehish
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> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM
> >
> >
> > > If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly
Oracle
> > > Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine
example of
> > > Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they
*like*
> > > doing this.
> > >
> > > Tom Mercadante
> > > Oracle Certified Professional
> > >
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > > Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework
is
> > > that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable
across
> > the
> > > enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place,
you
> > > would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.
Alternately,
> > you
> > > could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
> > > requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think
more
> > > about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.
> > >
> > > Thank You
> > >
> > > Stephen P. Karniotis
> > > Technical Alliance Manager
> > > Compuware Corporation
> > > Direct: (313) 227-4350
> > > Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Web: www.compuware.com
> > >
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> > > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> > >
> > > But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the
grids,
> > > don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this
off.
> > >
> > > Tom Mercadante
> > > Oracle Certified Professional
> > >
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > > I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
> > > attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
> > >
> > > Dennis Williams
> > > DBA
> > > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
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> > >
> > >
> > > For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be
> > handled
> > > by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the
> > fairly
> > > recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
> > > particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the
> > other
> > > particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the
grid
> > > become

RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Jared Still
Rich,

That really isn't 'grid', but I think you know that.

GC essentially makes a network look like one great big
box, with the cross platform functionality included.

In the immortal words of Scott McNeally:
"The network is the computer".  :)

Don't know if he said if first.  John Brunner was likely
the first to get the concept in print.

Jared

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 10:09, Jesse, Rich wrote:
> Some of us here at work have been using "grid computing" to compile
> programs...
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
> 
> Standard disclaimers apply (e.g. all machines must have same versions of
> copmiler, same architecture, etc. to avoid problems).
> 
> 
> Rich
> 
> Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:19 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> > 
> > 
> > Dick, Jared
> >If you look at the big picture, 20 years ago the idea of a 
> > PC with the
> > throughput of a mainframe was laughable. Not so laughable today. Large
> > systems use many of the same components as PCs. Whether this 
> > means the grid
> > is more than hype remains to be seen.  But I suspect Larry 
> > would prefer you
> > spent your money on Oracle licensing instead of hardware. And 
> > this may be an
> > area where Oracle can keep ahead of the open-source folks.
> > 
> > Dennis Williams
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Jesse, Rich
Kernel schmernel, KDE takes something like 18 hours to compile (and I think
KDE sucks -- Enlightenment all the way!).  Knock that down by two-thirds or
a half with a couple of more boxes with a 'net connection.  Building an A/V
Gentoo box takes many days.  Damn tight when you're done, but it takes a
while.  distcc would definitely help.

That being said, I haven't used distcc yet.  I've been spending my time
figuring out the ATAPI crap under 2.4 (I've been told that 2.6 cleans it up)
and kernel patches to sync a Treo with USB.  I don't need to add another
variable into the list by grid'ing with co-workers boxes who may be running
different versions of stuff.

:)

Rich


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> 
> 
> Haven't you ever heard of things like "modular programming",
> "object oriented approach", "divide and conquer" and alike?
> What in the Wall's name are you doing when you need a distributed
> compiler? Linux kernel compiles on my box in 10 minutes, modules
> need another 10 and I'm good to go.
> On 10/27/2003 01:09:25 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > Some of us here at work have been using "grid computing" to compile
> > programs...
> > 
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
> > 
> > Standard disclaimers apply (e.g. all machines must have 
> same versions
> > of
> > copmiler, same architecture, etc. to avoid problems).
> > 
> > 
> > Rich
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Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Mladen Gogala
Haven't you ever heard of things like "modular programming",
"object oriented approach", "divide and conquer" and alike?
What in the Wall's name are you doing when you need a distributed
compiler? Linux kernel compiles on my box in 10 minutes, modules
need another 10 and I'm good to go.
On 10/27/2003 01:09:25 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
Some of us here at work have been using "grid computing" to compile
programs...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml

Standard disclaimers apply (e.g. all machines must have same versions
of
copmiler, same architecture, etc. to avoid problems).
Rich

Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
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> Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
>
>
> Dick, Jared
>If you look at the big picture, 20 years ago the idea of a
> PC with the
> throughput of a mainframe was laughable. Not so laughable today.
Large
> systems use many of the same components as PCs. Whether this
> means the grid
> is more than hype remains to be seen.  But I suspect Larry
> would prefer you
> spent your money on Oracle licensing instead of hardware. And
> this may be an
> area where Oracle can keep ahead of the open-source folks.
>
> Dennis Williams
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Goulet, Dick
>From a first glance, that seems like a pile of wasted money.  Knowing Savantis you'd 
>be better off with RAC.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Well, it is marketing hype from Oracle's perspective but the Linux
supercomputing stuff is a reality and grid is not too far from that
conceptually.  I supose one of these days, say around, Oracle 15X, they
may actually get it all down.

The show and tell I went too talked about bundled clustering software,
automagic storage management, automagic sql tuning, automagic automagic.
I suspect it will take a few releases to get all that stuff working
lickety split and sort of bug free.

Allan

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Jared,

Well said.  It I believe is a HYPE and NOT a paradigm shift.
Heck, look at from a marketing perspective.  If we can't sell you a few
high priced computers maybe we can sell you a lot of cheap computers
with high priced, grid enabled (Namely higher priced), software.  End
result, more money in our bank and less in yours.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I would imagine that the perspectice of grid computing 
offered at OOW would be somewhat Oracle centric.

Grid computing does not require Oracle - it is, here
comes an overused buzzword, a paradigm shift.

There, I've said it. I think this is the first time
I've ever used that term, and it may have even been
properly used.

That said, grid computing is the latest hype cycle, and
time will tell if there's anything to it.

Jared


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:59, Yechiel Adar wrote:
> Hello Tom
> 
> >From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC,

> >with
> options to add or remove servers as you go along.
> It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers

> etc. There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also
> separated databases.
> 
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
> - Original Message -
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM
> 
> 
> > If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly
> > Oracle Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another 
> > fine example of Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it 
> > yet again?  they *like* doing this.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural
> > framework is that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage 
> > is sharable across
> the
> > enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place,

> > you would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.
> > Alternately,
> you
> > could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable
> > grid.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
> > requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think 
> > more about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Stephen P. Karniotis
> > Technical Alliance Manager
> > Compuware Corporation
> > Direct: (313) 227-4350
> > Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: www.compuware.com
> >
> >  -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> >
> > But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the
> > grids, don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to 
> > pull this off.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid
> > are attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
> >
> > 

RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Other companies are in the mix, also... Check out:

http://www.savantis.com/product/



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Well, it is marketing hype from Oracle's perspective but the Linux
supercomputing stuff is a reality and grid is not too far from that
conceptually.  I supose one of these days, say around, Oracle 15X, they
may actually get it all down.

The show and tell I went too talked about bundled clustering software,
automagic storage management, automagic sql tuning, automagic automagic.
I suspect it will take a few releases to get all that stuff working
lickety split and sort of bug free.

Allan

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:59 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Jared,

Well said.  It I believe is a HYPE and NOT a paradigm shift.
Heck, look at from a marketing perspective.  If we can't sell you a few
high priced computers maybe we can sell you a lot of cheap computers
with high priced, grid enabled (Namely higher priced), software.  End
result, more money in our bank and less in yours.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I would imagine that the perspectice of grid computing 
offered at OOW would be somewhat Oracle centric.

Grid computing does not require Oracle - it is, here
comes an overused buzzword, a paradigm shift.

There, I've said it. I think this is the first time
I've ever used that term, and it may have even been
properly used.

That said, grid computing is the latest hype cycle, and
time will tell if there's anything to it.

Jared


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:59, Yechiel Adar wrote:
> Hello Tom
> 
> >From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC,

> >with
> options to add or remove servers as you go along.
> It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers

> etc. There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also
> separated databases.
> 
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
> - Original Message -
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM
> 
> 
> > If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly
> > Oracle Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another 
> > fine example of Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it 
> > yet again?  they *like* doing this.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural
> > framework is that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage 
> > is sharable across
> the
> > enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place,

> > you would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.
> > Alternately,
> you
> > could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable
> > grid.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
> > requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think 
> > more about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Stephen P. Karniotis
> > Technical Alliance Manager
> > Compuware Corporation
> > Direct: (313) 227-4350
> > Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: www.compuware.com
> >
> >  -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> >
> > But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the
> > grids, don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to 
> > pull this off.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid
> > are attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > For database type 

RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Jesse, Rich
Some of us here at work have been using "grid computing" to compile
programs...

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml

Standard disclaimers apply (e.g. all machines must have same versions of
copmiler, same architecture, etc. to avoid problems).


Rich

Rich Jesse   System/Database Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

> -Original Message-
> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:19 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> 
> 
> Dick, Jared
>If you look at the big picture, 20 years ago the idea of a 
> PC with the
> throughput of a mainframe was laughable. Not so laughable today. Large
> systems use many of the same components as PCs. Whether this 
> means the grid
> is more than hype remains to be seen.  But I suspect Larry 
> would prefer you
> spent your money on Oracle licensing instead of hardware. And 
> this may be an
> area where Oracle can keep ahead of the open-source folks.
> 
> Dennis Williams
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Nelson, Allan
Well, it is marketing hype from Oracle's perspective but the Linux
supercomputing stuff is a reality and grid is not too far from that
conceptually.  I supose one of these days, say around, Oracle 15X, they
may actually get it all down.

The show and tell I went too talked about bundled clustering software,
automagic storage management, automagic sql tuning, automagic automagic.
I suspect it will take a few releases to get all that stuff working
lickety split and sort of bug free.

Allan

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Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:59 AM
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Jared,

Well said.  It I believe is a HYPE and NOT a paradigm shift.
Heck, look at from a marketing perspective.  If we can't sell you a few
high priced computers maybe we can sell you a lot of cheap computers
with high priced, grid enabled (Namely higher priced), software.  End
result, more money in our bank and less in yours.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I would imagine that the perspectice of grid computing 
offered at OOW would be somewhat Oracle centric.

Grid computing does not require Oracle - it is, here
comes an overused buzzword, a paradigm shift.

There, I've said it. I think this is the first time
I've ever used that term, and it may have even been
properly used.

That said, grid computing is the latest hype cycle, and
time will tell if there's anything to it.

Jared


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:59, Yechiel Adar wrote:
> Hello Tom
> 
> >From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC,

> >with
> options to add or remove servers as you go along.
> It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers

> etc. There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also 
> separated databases.
> 
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
> - Original Message -
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM
> 
> 
> > If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly 
> > Oracle Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another 
> > fine example of Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it 
> > yet again?  they *like* doing this.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural 
> > framework is that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage 
> > is sharable across
> the
> > enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place,

> > you would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  
> > Alternately,
> you
> > could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable 
> > grid.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial 
> > requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think 
> > more about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Stephen P. Karniotis
> > Technical Alliance Manager
> > Compuware Corporation
> > Direct: (313) 227-4350
> > Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: www.compuware.com
> >
> >  -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> >
> > But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the 
> > grids, don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to 
> > pull this off.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid 
> > are attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be
> handled
> > by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from 
> > the
> fairly
> > recent knowledge that, i

Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Mladen Gogala
The way things are happening now, I have a feeling that we might soon  
witness the total eclipse of the SUN and that the darkness will rule.
One browser to rule them all, one browser to find them
One browser to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
In the land of Redmond where the shadows lay.
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And if your nose is raw from having nothing better to do with your
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(Remember: You can pick your friends; and you can pick your nose; but
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Whatever your business, it makes good economic sense to use the IT
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TIME:  9-10am PT/12-1pm ET
AGENDA
 -Joerg Schwarz, Senior Group Manager, Science Engineering, Sun
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 -David Simmons, Manager, Grid Solutions, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Stephen.Lee

And if your nose is raw from having nothing better to do with your time,
(Remember: You can pick your friends; and you can pick your nose; but you
cannot pick your friend's nose.)
you can tune in to some of Sun's marketing on the subject.

 (from a Sun e-mail) 

Whatever your business, it makes good economic sense to use the IT
infrastructure you've already got to raise productivity, maintain
availability, and minimize downtime.  Learn how and why customers are
deploying over 7,000 Sun Grids, from local clusters to global solutions.

REGISTER TODAY!
http://see.sun.com/Apps/DCS/mcp?r=70041$EQ47ezI0120003ITy041$EQ0mSCYaSCzF

TITLE: Grid Computing: Put All of Your IT Infrastructure to Work
DATE: Tuesday, November 4, 2003
TIME:  9-10am PT/12-1pm ET

AGENDA
 -Joerg Schwarz, Senior Group Manager, Science Engineering, Sun
Microsystems, Inc.

 -David Simmons, Manager, Grid Solutions, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 
 -Dr. Steven Newhouse, Technical Director, London e-Science Centre, Imperial
College

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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dick, Jared
   If you look at the big picture, 20 years ago the idea of a PC with the
throughput of a mainframe was laughable. Not so laughable today. Large
systems use many of the same components as PCs. Whether this means the grid
is more than hype remains to be seen.  But I suspect Larry would prefer you
spent your money on Oracle licensing instead of hardware. And this may be an
area where Oracle can keep ahead of the open-source folks.

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:59 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Jared,

Well said.  It I believe is a HYPE and NOT a paradigm shift.  Heck,
look at from a marketing perspective.  If we can't sell you a few high
priced computers maybe we can sell you a lot of cheap computers with high
priced, grid enabled (Namely higher priced), software.  End result, more
money in our bank and less in yours.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I would imagine that the perspectice of grid computing 
offered at OOW would be somewhat Oracle centric.

Grid computing does not require Oracle - it is, here
comes an overused buzzword, a paradigm shift.

There, I've said it. I think this is the first time
I've ever used that term, and it may have even been
properly used.

That said, grid computing is the latest hype cycle, and
time will tell if there's anything to it.

Jared


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:59, Yechiel Adar wrote:
> Hello Tom
> 
> >From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC,
with
> options to add or remove servers as you go along.
> It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers
etc.
> There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also separated
> databases.
> 
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
> - Original Message -
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM
> 
> 
> > If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly
Oracle
> > Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example
of
> > Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they
*like*
> > doing this.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework
is
> > that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across
> the
> > enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
> > would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately,
> you
> > could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
> > requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
> > about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Stephen P. Karniotis
> > Technical Alliance Manager
> > Compuware Corporation
> > Direct: (313) 227-4350
> > Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: www.compuware.com
> >
> >  -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> >
> > But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
> > don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this
off.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
> > attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be
> handled
> > by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the
> fairly
> > recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
> > particle; and

RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Goulet, Dick
Jared,

Well said.  It I believe is a HYPE and NOT a paradigm shift.  Heck, look at 
from a marketing perspective.  If we can't sell you a few high priced computers maybe 
we can sell you a lot of cheap computers with high priced, grid enabled (Namely higher 
priced), software.  End result, more money in our bank and less in yours.

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 11:39 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I would imagine that the perspectice of grid computing 
offered at OOW would be somewhat Oracle centric.

Grid computing does not require Oracle - it is, here
comes an overused buzzword, a paradigm shift.

There, I've said it. I think this is the first time
I've ever used that term, and it may have even been
properly used.

That said, grid computing is the latest hype cycle, and
time will tell if there's anything to it.

Jared


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:59, Yechiel Adar wrote:
> Hello Tom
> 
> >From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC, with
> options to add or remove servers as you go along.
> It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers etc.
> There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also separated
> databases.
> 
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
> - Original Message -
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM
> 
> 
> > If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
> > Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
> > Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
> > doing this.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
> > that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across
> the
> > enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
> > would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately,
> you
> > could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
> > requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
> > about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Stephen P. Karniotis
> > Technical Alliance Manager
> > Compuware Corporation
> > Direct: (313) 227-4350
> > Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: www.compuware.com
> >
> >  -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> >
> > But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
> > don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
> > attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be
> handled
> > by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the
> fairly
> > recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
> > particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the
> other
> > particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
> > becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the
> matching
> > particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
> > Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
> > Larry is God.
> > --
> > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
> > --
> > Author: Stephen Lee
> >   INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>

Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Jared Still
I would imagine that the perspectice of grid computing 
offered at OOW would be somewhat Oracle centric.

Grid computing does not require Oracle - it is, here
comes an overused buzzword, a paradigm shift.

There, I've said it. I think this is the first time
I've ever used that term, and it may have even been
properly used.

That said, grid computing is the latest hype cycle, and
time will tell if there's anything to it.

Jared


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 00:59, Yechiel Adar wrote:
> Hello Tom
> 
> >From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC, with
> options to add or remove servers as you go along.
> It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers etc.
> There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also separated
> databases.
> 
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
> - Original Message -
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM
> 
> 
> > If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
> > Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
> > Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
> > doing this.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
> > that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across
> the
> > enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
> > would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately,
> you
> > could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
> > requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
> > about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.
> >
> > Thank You
> >
> > Stephen P. Karniotis
> > Technical Alliance Manager
> > Compuware Corporation
> > Direct: (313) 227-4350
> > Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: www.compuware.com
> >
> >  -Original Message-
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> >
> > But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
> > don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.
> >
> > Tom Mercadante
> > Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
> > attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be
> handled
> > by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the
> fairly
> > recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
> > particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the
> other
> > particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
> > becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the
> matching
> > particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
> > Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
> > Larry is God.
> > --
> > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
> > --
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> >   INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-27 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Tom

>From my limited understanding in OOW in Paris, the Grid is a BIG RAC, with
options to add or remove servers as you go along.
It can be used for web servers, applications servers, database servers etc.
There is a lot more in 10g that can help you manage also separated
databases.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
- Original Message -
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:54 PM


> If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
> Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
> Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
> doing this.
>
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
> -Original Message-
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
> that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across
the
> enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
> would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately,
you
> could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.
>
> Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
> requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
> about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.
>
> Thank You
>
> Stephen P. Karniotis
> Technical Alliance Manager
> Compuware Corporation
> Direct: (313) 227-4350
> Mobile: (248) 408-2918
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: www.compuware.com
>
>  -Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
>
> But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
> don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.
>
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
> -Original Message-
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
> attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -Original Message-
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be
handled
> by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the
fairly
> recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
> particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the
other
> particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
> becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the
matching
> particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
> Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
> Larry is God.
> --
> Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
> --
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-22 Thread Spears, Brian



First 
feedback is that it is not rac but a step up.. 
 
brian

  -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 6:34 
  PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: 
  anyone have opinions on the future of the 
  'grid'?From what little 
  I know about it, I would say that RAC is simply a piece of the 
  Grid enabling infrastructure. Grid 
  computing is much larger than just Oracle. There is no dearth of grid computing literature 
  available on the www. Simply 
  google for it and you will be inundated. Jared 
  


  
  "Mercadante, Thomas F" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 10/20/2003 05:54 AM 
 Please respond to ORACLE-L 
                  To:     
   Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:       
        
      Subject:        RE: anyone have opinions on 
the future of the 'grid'?If this is true, then what is the difference between 
  RAC (formerly OracleParallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this 
  just another fine example ofOracle taking an existing product and renaming 
  it yet again?  they *like*doing this.Tom MercadanteOracle 
  Certified Professional-Original Message-Sent: Friday, 
  October 17, 2003 3:35 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list 
  ORACLE-LActually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the 
  architectural framework isthat you treat disk like a service.  All 
  disk storage is sharable across theenterprise grid you configure.  If 
  you have multiple grids in place, youwould have multiple disk architecture 
  frameworks in place.  Alternately, youcould share the disk 
  architectures to create a common, scalable grid.Unfortunately, Oracle 
  has been very lax in discussing the financialrequirements for the grid. 
   Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think moreabout the cost to 
  reconfigure your entire data center.  Thank YouStephen P. 
  KarniotisTechnical Alliance ManagerCompuware CorporationDirect: 
                  (313) 
  227-4350Mobile:                 
  (248) 408-2918Email:               
    [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:         
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  Message-Sent:                 
  Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PMTo:           
        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LBut that 
  would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,don't you 
  think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this 
  off.Tom MercadanteOracle Certified 
  Professional-Original Message-Sent: Thursday, October 
  16, 2003 6:30 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LI 
  think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid 
  areattached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?Dennis 
  WilliamsDBALifetouch, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  -Original Message-Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 
  PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LFor database type 
  stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handledby CPU resources 
  scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairlyrecent 
  knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matchingparticle; 
  and changing one of the particles results in a change in the 
  otherparticle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over 
  the gridbecomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the 
  matchingparticles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers 
  involved.Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we 
  recall thatLarry is God.-- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: 
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-20 Thread Jared . Still

From what little I know about it, I would say that RAC is simply a piece of the 
Grid enabling infrastructure. Grid computing is much larger than just Oracle.

There is no dearth of grid computing literature available on the www.

Simply google for it and you will be inundated.

Jared







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        cc:        
        Subject:        RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?


If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
doing this.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across the
enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately, you
could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.

Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.  

Thank You

Stephen P. Karniotis
Technical Alliance Manager
Compuware Corporation
Direct:                 (313) 227-4350
Mobile:                 (248) 408-2918
Email:                 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Web:                 www.compuware.com 

 -Original Message-
Sent:                 Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
To:                 Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled
by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
Larry is God.
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-20 Thread Pete Sharman
Tom

Your perception is correct.  Think about grid in very simple terms as a
collection of database servers (clearly there's more to it than that, but
for the point I'm trying to make this makes it easier to understand), and
you'll quickly see that a RAC database can be part of that BUT so can other
databases.  Hence grid is bigger than just RAC.  A grid environment can
include multiple databases, some of which may be RAC'ed and others may not.

Pete
"Controlling developers is like herding cats."
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Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
 


-Original Message-
Mercadante, Thomas F
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:44 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Dennis,

I guess this is the crux of my question.  My impression was that it was
*not* just another implementation/release of OPS/RAC, that it was indeed
something brand new.  I guess I need to wait and see what it actually does.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


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Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:29 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Tom
   I would suspect that you are correct. I suppose we won't know until the
10g manuals are released. I do understand that parallel server was pretty
much rewritten to create RAC. However, I would argue that what you see as an
irritation is part of Oracle's marketing success. By changing the name of a
feature, one can subtly change how it is perceived. How much does it cost to
add an "i" or a "g" to a product's name?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:54 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
doing this.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across the
enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately, you
could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.

Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.  

Thank You

Stephen P. Karniotis
Technical Alliance Manager
Compuware Corporation
Direct: (313) 227-4350
Mobile: (248) 408-2918
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Web:www.compuware.com 

 -Original Message-
Sent:   Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled
by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
Larry is God.
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-20 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I have the impression that Oracle has a grid running from Texas somewhere,
that they used it to test 10g, and that they also are using w.r.t the
Collaboration Suite.

In their case, if they can allocate resources like people used to be able to
allocate disk from an NAS to servers that require it, as they require it,
then I can see the benefit for large centers.

can the grid span multiple racks?  Can Oracle RAC rely on as many racks as
10g?

Patrice.

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Dennis,

I guess this is the crux of my question.  My impression was that it was
*not* just another implementation/release of OPS/RAC, that it was indeed
something brand new.  I guess I need to wait and see what it actually does.

Tom Mercadante
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Tom
   I would suspect that you are correct. I suppose we won't know until the
10g manuals are released. I do understand that parallel server was pretty
much rewritten to create RAC. However, I would argue that what you see as an
irritation is part of Oracle's marketing success. By changing the name of a
feature, one can subtly change how it is perceived. How much does it cost to
add an "i" or a "g" to a product's name?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:54 AM
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If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
doing this.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across the
enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately, you
could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.

Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.  

Thank You

Stephen P. Karniotis
Technical Alliance Manager
Compuware Corporation
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 -Original Message-
Sent:   Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
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Subject:    RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


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Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
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I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?

Dennis Williams
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For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled
by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
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Re: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-20 Thread rgaffuri
the big question is how useful will it be in 10g. Will anyone want to use it? I think 
I saw a post somewhere that says wait until oracle version 12 before anyone uses it. 
> 
> From: "Mercadante, Thomas F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/10/20 Mon AM 10:44:25 EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> 
> Dennis,
> 
> I guess this is the crux of my question.  My impression was that it was
> *not* just another implementation/release of OPS/RAC, that it was indeed
> something brand new.  I guess I need to wait and see what it actually does.
> 
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:29 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> Tom
>I would suspect that you are correct. I suppose we won't know until the
> 10g manuals are released. I do understand that parallel server was pretty
> much rewritten to create RAC. However, I would argue that what you see as an
> irritation is part of Oracle's marketing success. By changing the name of a
> feature, one can subtly change how it is perceived. How much does it cost to
> add an "i" or a "g" to a product's name?
> 
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> -Original Message-
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:54 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
> Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
> Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
> doing this.
> 
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
> that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across the
> enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
> would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately, you
> could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.
> 
> Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
> requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
> about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.  
> 
> Thank You
> 
> Stephen P. Karniotis
> Technical Alliance Manager
> Compuware Corporation
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>  -Original Message-
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject:  RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?
> 
> But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
> don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.
> 
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
> attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
> 
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> 
> -Original Message-
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled
> by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
> recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
> particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
> particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
> becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
> particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
> Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
> Larry is God.
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dennis,

I guess this is the crux of my question.  My impression was that it was
*not* just another implementation/release of OPS/RAC, that it was indeed
something brand new.  I guess I need to wait and see what it actually does.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:29 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Tom
   I would suspect that you are correct. I suppose we won't know until the
10g manuals are released. I do understand that parallel server was pretty
much rewritten to create RAC. However, I would argue that what you see as an
irritation is part of Oracle's marketing success. By changing the name of a
feature, one can subtly change how it is perceived. How much does it cost to
add an "i" or a "g" to a product's name?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:54 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
doing this.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across the
enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately, you
could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.

Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.  

Thank You

Stephen P. Karniotis
Technical Alliance Manager
Compuware Corporation
Direct: (313) 227-4350
Mobile: (248) 408-2918
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Web:www.compuware.com 

 -Original Message-
Sent:   Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:    RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled
by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
Larry is God.
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tom
   I would suspect that you are correct. I suppose we won't know until the
10g manuals are released. I do understand that parallel server was pretty
much rewritten to create RAC. However, I would argue that what you see as an
irritation is part of Oracle's marketing success. By changing the name of a
feature, one can subtly change how it is perceived. How much does it cost to
add an "i" or a "g" to a product's name?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 7:54 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
doing this.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across the
enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately, you
could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.

Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.  

Thank You

Stephen P. Karniotis
Technical Alliance Manager
Compuware Corporation
Direct: (313) 227-4350
Mobile: (248) 408-2918
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Web:www.compuware.com 

 -Original Message-
Sent:   Friday, October 17, 2003 2:41 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:    RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:04 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled
by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
Larry is God.
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
If this is true, then what is the difference between RAC (formerly Oracle
Parallel Server) and Grid computing?  Is this just another fine example of
Oracle taking an existing product and renaming it yet again?  they *like*
doing this.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across the
enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately, you
could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.

Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.  

Thank You

Stephen P. Karniotis
Technical Alliance Manager
Compuware Corporation
Direct: (313) 227-4350
Mobile: (248) 408-2918
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Web:www.compuware.com 

 -Original Message-
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Subject:RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


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I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

-Original Message-
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled
by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-17 Thread Henry Poras
Think really, really, really fast network. Check out
http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-2/p42.html

Henry

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But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

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I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?

Dennis Williams
DBA
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by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-17 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Actually Dennis is quite correct.  Part of the architectural framework is
that you treat disk like a service.  All disk storage is sharable across the
enterprise grid you configure.  If you have multiple grids in place, you
would have multiple disk architecture frameworks in place.  Alternately, you
could share the disk architectures to create a common, scalable grid.

Unfortunately, Oracle has been very lax in discussing the financial
requirements for the grid.  Forget Oracle pricing folks -->  think more
about the cost to reconfigure your entire data center.  

Thank You

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But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

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I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-17 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Bingo! 
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> But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
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> recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
> particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
> particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
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> particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
> Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-17 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
But that would require Oracle software to be installed on all the grids,
don't you think?  I'm really curious how they are going to pull this off.

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I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
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by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
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particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall that
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-17 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Had to chime in here.

Carly Fiorina put this in simple terms.  Grid implementations for most
organizations is a 5-9 year plan and must be started and well thought out
BEFORE you do the work.  Larry is assuming that you just change over and all
is well.  Larry forgot to mention the capital investments required for Grid.

10g does have MANY new features, however, only a small amount of the
organizations will leverage them.  And for reference, any organization that
"played with 10g's grid/rac" implementations has had SIGNIFICANT support
from Oracle.  IOW: don't do this alone

I have submitted a paper discussing Grid, its requirements, etc. for IOUG
Live! 2004.  Let's see if this gets approved.  If so, is should shed some
light on the reality of the Grid Kool-AID

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Ain't necessarily so.  We already have some customers using grid technology
with 9iR2 and 9iAS, along with the toolkit that's available on OTN (whose
name escapes me at the moment).  These are very high end business clients
(not government or academia) that the Advanced Technology Solutions group in
Oracle Consulting has worked with, but I won't name them because I'm not
sure if they're referenceable.

I think one thing that a lot of people are missing around the 10g message is
that an important part of any grid technology is self management
capabilities (autonomics in grid terms).  10g makes huge strides in the
manageability area, and that's useful to ANY Oracle customer, not just those
who are looking at the grid side.

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I was at the Wash DC Oracle conference yesterday and the key note address
was about the future direction of Oracle. It was pretty positive about Grid
technology and blade servers. Anyone out there have any opinions? 

It seems like this technology is probably several years away from being used
in the business and government contracting world. Most places you see it are
in academia. 

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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-17 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ah.  now I understand.  It involves Quantum Physics.

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particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
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Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
So, what exactly is the difference between a grid and RAC/OPS?
The associations that I get when somebody mentions the word "grid"
are I-95 in Norwalk/Stamford area around 8:30 AM or LIE  at the
approximately the same time. That can be used to demonstrate gridlock
computing.
On 10/16/2003 06:29:33 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?
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For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be
handled
by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the
fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in  
the
other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the
grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the
matching
particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers
involved.
Initially, this would seem to be a daunting task ... until we recall
that
Larry is God.
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I think the assumption must be that all the computers on the grid are
attached to a SAN. Does that seem reasonable?

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particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
becomes obvious: One need only establish central management of the matching
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Pete Sharman
Low end servers, usually running Linux, 1 or 2 CPU's, 2 Gb of memory, that
can easily be racked (or even RAC'ed).

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What are blade servers? Could the listers please shed some light on it

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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Stephen Lee
For database type stuff, one must wonder how the data itself can be handled
by CPU resources scattered hither and yon.  The answer comes from the fairly
recent knowledge that, in our universe, every particle has a matching
particle; and changing one of the particles results in a change in the other
particle.  Well, the solution to trying to shove data all over the grid
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particles that make up the CPU and memory of all the computers involved.
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
The grid is presently at version 1.0, and like any 1.0 release is fraught with 
problems.  One doesn't just install the grid, but installs several packages which have 
interdependencies to the extent that upgrading one will almost certainly cause 
failures somewhere else.  

I digress...
A developer wanted to use a materialized view for data aggregation.  I explained what 
he needed had to be done on the database containing the data to be summarized, that he 
would need to have a count of the records as part of the aggregation, and added that 
the wind must be due west at a steady 10 knots, and there must be exactly five clouds 
visible in the sky.

This has become known here as the five-cloud rule.  The grid today is very much 
governed by the five-cloud rule.

However, like anything new technology with proper effort it will improve.  

Ian MacGregor
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Current issue of ComputerWorld has an article on Grid, but I enjoyed the fantastic 
cartoon  :)


- Kirti 


--- Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a recently curmudgeonly reply to a friend that
> asked the same question.
> 
> -
> 
> As for 10g itself: the 'g' stands for 'grid' as you probably know.
> 
> The 'grid' is really the infrastructure for 'utility computing', the 
> latest plot to make IT folks obsolete.  Personally I see it being 
> useful in large organizations where large numbers of servers can be 
> used in a grid, and computing power being doled out to apps as needed.  
> It's still very much vaporware, as the tools to effectively administer 
> and monitor this aren't available yet.
> 
> I don't agree with the prognostications that businesses will begin 
> buying computing power from a utility computing company on an as 
> needed basis, much as they do electricity.
> 
> The whole 'utility' part of the moniker is a pretty poor analogy IMO.
> 
> Oracle's last big push was RAC.  Reading the news makes it pretty 
> obvious why they're pushing it: revenue is down, few new customers, 
> gotta sell new stuff to existing ones.  The hype for RAC was/is really 
> overblown, not many people actually need it, nor can afford to 
> purchase and maintain it.
> 
> 10g will help Larry run in the America's Cup again.  :)
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 08:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I was at the Wash DC Oracle conference yesterday and the key note 
> > address was about the future
> direction of Oracle. It was pretty positive about Grid technology and 
> blade servers. Anyone out there have any opinions?
> > 
> > It seems like this technology is probably several years away from 
> > being used in the business
> and government contracting world. Most places you see it are in 
> academia.
> > 




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Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Current issue of ComputerWorld has an article on Grid, but I enjoyed the fantastic 
cartoon  :)


- Kirti 


--- Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a recently curmudgeonly reply to a friend that 
> asked the same question.
> 
> -
> 
> As for 10g itself: the 'g' stands for 'grid' as you probably know.
> 
> The 'grid' is really the infrastructure for 'utility computing',
> the latest plot to make IT folks obsolete.  Personally I see it
> being useful in large organizations where large numbers of servers
> can be used in a grid, and computing power being doled out to
> apps as needed.  It's still very much vaporware, as the tools to
> effectively administer and monitor this aren't available yet.
> 
> I don't agree with the prognostications that businesses will begin
> buying computing power from a utility computing company on an
> as needed basis, much as they do electricity.
> 
> The whole 'utility' part of the moniker is a pretty poor analogy IMO.
> 
> Oracle's last big push was RAC.  Reading the news makes it pretty
> obvious why they're pushing it: revenue is down, few new customers,
> gotta sell new stuff to existing ones.  The hype for RAC was/is 
> really overblown, not many people actually need it, nor can afford
> to purchase and maintain it.
> 
> 10g will help Larry run in the America's Cup again.  :)
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 08:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I was at the Wash DC Oracle conference yesterday and the key note address was 
> > about the future
> direction of Oracle. It was pretty positive about Grid technology and blade servers. 
> Anyone out
> there have any opinions? 
> > 
> > It seems like this technology is probably several years away from being used in 
> > the business
> and government contracting world. Most places you see it are in academia. 
> > 




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RE: Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Branimir Petrovic


> ...  As load increases, Oracle
> will spawn off work onto the other free servers somehow.
> 

Looks like Oracle is finally "catching up" with what we've
been enjoying on Windoze, for quite a number of years now. 
Only for some strange reason this very principle used to be
called "worm propagation" in that wonderful land over there...

Joking of course, but spawning off work automagically to 
remote "box" does sound a bit worrisome nevertheless.

Branimir

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RE: Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Jared . Still

We had Sun's N1 architect here a few months ago to brief us on N1. ( grid)

In a nutshell, all of your servers go in a pool, the administrative software
doles out the resources as needed, simple as that.

Of course, it is not that simple.  Very interesting stuff, though I think the current
buzz about 'utility computing' based on the grid will be just as successful
as ASP was supposed to be.

Should be very interesting in large organizations.  Mr. Strong acknowledged
that this is still vaporware - not really to alpha stage yet.

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I think it's more than that.  I've got a meeting with the Oracle folks
tomorrow for an overview of other stuff, but he did mention that grid
computing is not like Oracle Failover.  

It's more like you have a group of servers at your disposal.  Oracle has
*not* been installed on these machines.

You have a database running on another machine.  As load increases, Oracle
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by an Oracle technical rep.  So it sounds like a true electical power grid,
where a server can draw upon other capability as it needs it, and then
releases it as it doesn't need it.  

Sounds awesome if it's true and if it works.

Please please please somebody correct me if I'm wrong.  I can take the
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im not 100% certain. I believe has to do with using 'of the shelf parts' to
slap together your own servers instead of paying for expensive ones. You set
them up as a 'grid' like structure, so if one CPU fails you can failover to
others. 

I think thats what it is... 
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RE: Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I think it's more than that.  I've got a meeting with the Oracle folks
tomorrow for an overview of other stuff, but he did mention that grid
computing is not like Oracle Failover.  

It's more like you have a group of servers at your disposal.  Oracle has
*not* been installed on these machines.

You have a database running on another machine.  As load increases, Oracle
will spawn off work onto the other free servers somehow.  How the data gets
there, and everything works is a mystery to me.  But this is what was said
by an Oracle technical rep.  So it sounds like a true electical power grid,
where a server can draw upon other capability as it needs it, and then
releases it as it doesn't need it.  

Sounds awesome if it's true and if it works.

Please please please somebody correct me if I'm wrong.  I can take the
body-blows.

Tom Mercadante
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I think thats what it is... 
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Pete Sharman
Ain't necessarily so.  We already have some customers using grid technology
with 9iR2 and 9iAS, along with the toolkit that's available on OTN (whose
name escapes me at the moment).  These are very high end business clients
(not government or academia) that the Advanced Technology Solutions group in
Oracle Consulting has worked with, but I won't name them because I'm not
sure if they're referenceable.

I think one thing that a lot of people are missing around the 10g message is
that an important part of any grid technology is self management
capabilities (autonomics in grid terms).  10g makes huge strides in the
manageability area, and that's useful to ANY Oracle customer, not just those
who are looking at the grid side.

Pete
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I was at the Wash DC Oracle conference yesterday and the key note address
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technology and blade servers. Anyone out there have any opinions? 

It seems like this technology is probably several years away from being used
in the business and government contracting world. Most places you see it are
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Re: Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread rgaffuri
im not 100% certain. I believe has to do with using 'of the shelf parts' to slap 
together your own servers instead of paying for expensive ones. You set them up as a 
'grid' like structure, so if one CPU fails you can failover to others. 

I think thats what it is... 
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Nelson, Allan
1 or 2 CPU's on a card with a hard drive and an ethernet port or two
connected to a very high speed backplane.  They hot-plug into a card
cage, or chassis if you prefer.  They put a lot of cpu's into a
relatively small space.

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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Odland, Brad
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RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
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Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
I thought that they might ask for billions to help neutralize  
Microsoft's weapons of mass deception. Such is the reputation
of the place, I guess.

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Re: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread Jared Still
Here's a recently curmudgeonly reply to a friend that 
asked the same question.

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As for 10g itself: the 'g' stands for 'grid' as you probably know.

The 'grid' is really the infrastructure for 'utility computing',
the latest plot to make IT folks obsolete.  Personally I see it
being useful in large organizations where large numbers of servers
can be used in a grid, and computing power being doled out to
apps as needed.  It's still very much vaporware, as the tools to
effectively administer and monitor this aren't available yet.

I don't agree with the prognostications that businesses will begin
buying computing power from a utility computing company on an
as needed basis, much as they do electricity.

The whole 'utility' part of the moniker is a pretty poor analogy IMO.

Oracle's last big push was RAC.  Reading the news makes it pretty
obvious why they're pushing it: revenue is down, few new customers,
gotta sell new stuff to existing ones.  The hype for RAC was/is 
really overblown, not many people actually need it, nor can afford
to purchase and maintain it.

10g will help Larry run in the America's Cup again.  :)

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anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-16 Thread rgaffuri
I was at the Wash DC Oracle conference yesterday and the key note address was about 
the future direction of Oracle. It was pretty positive about Grid technology and blade 
servers. Anyone out there have any opinions? 

It seems like this technology is probably several years away from being used in the 
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