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3Leaf makes big SMPs out of x64 clusters

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| At the moment, 3Leaf has two configurations
| of server clusters it is selling. A base
| DDC-Server has eight server nodes, with a
| total of 256 GB of memory, 96 Opteron cores
| (using the Istanbul chips) running at 2.4
| GHz, 4 TB of disk capacity, an InfiniBand
| switch, the DDC-Pool software, and a Linux
| license for all the nodes; it sells for
| $99,000, which is a fraction of the cost of
| a big RISC/Unix server. (Yeah, that's the
| point.)
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/3leaf_ddc_launch/

Migrating off the mainframe; part 3: Tuning apps for the new platform

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| Let us suppose that you have carried out a
| full port of a piece of mainframe software,
| and it runs on the target platform.
|
| [...]
|
| However, it is likely that there will be
| more challenges in the near future. What if
| the application needs to be moved to an
| internal or external cloud in the near
| future? Get-the-job-done mainframe migration
| does not guarantee readiness for a cloud. Is
| there a possibility that the app may need to
| be moved from Windows to Linux or back? Can
| you get more out of the migrated app, such
| as composition with other apps to enhance or
| integrate business processes? What if you
| have to combine the app with another from a
| company you just acquired?
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http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid80_gci1373453,00.html


Related:

The Power of Perception

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| A campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld may well succeed in changing this and
| convincing consumers to run Vista. But will it change the perceptions of IT
| professionals in large organizations? I wouldn't bet against it. We all like
| to think we are rational agents, but in reality we are all still susceptible
| to advertising — even Microsoft's.
|
| Let's take a look at the Linux market. Linux has many things going for it,
| yet it makes up just 13.4 percent of total server revenue. (Don't forget,
| many servers run Linux but don't generate revenue for vendors.)
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http://www.serverwatch.com/stats/article.php/3769301
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