Re: Intanium

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From: Andrew Madsen (andrew.madsen_at_harley-davidson.com)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:54:07 -0500

We recently did a proof of concept using HP Itanium based servers to see if
we could gain any performance in our data warehouse. We found we gained a
major hit in Analysis Services and a minor increase in the regular database
operations. MSAS is memory intensive and we could run parallel processes in
the 64-bit world. We also could consolidate servers because of the 16
exabyte memory availability.

If we did a lot of memory caching or loading of the database we got good
increases in the speed of a regular database but not enough to warrant the
use of Itanium servers for that function. All-in-all the higher processor
speeds for a regular RDBMS in the 32-bit world made up for the memory issues
you find there. But if you have that high end BI type of database function
then IMHO 64-bit is the way to go. 

-- 
Andrew C. Madsen
Information Architect
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
"Drackewl" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:100bc01c43f0a$a69ff460$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Does anybody have an opinion on these Itanium servers for
> SQL 2000?  Is the investment worth the speed for a mid-
> size company?  Or, will P4 multi-processors with a tonnes
> of RAM, possibly load-balanced do the trick?  The problem
> I have is not the cost of the Itanium server it's the
> cost of both Win2K Adv & SQL Enterprise.
>
> Presently I have a quad PIII Zeon 1000 MHz with 5GB RAM.
> We have this one SP to process our manufacturing data
> which takes 6 hours to complete.  Can anybody estimate
> what the results would be with an Itanium server?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Brad
>
>
>

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