A brief explanation of what an optimized solution is and what it is not can be found in the previous blog entry Oracle's Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft HCM 9.0. We went through a similar exercise to publish another optimized solution around Siebel CRM 8.1.1. The Siebel solution implements Oracle Siebel CRM using a unique combination of SPARC servers, Sun storage, Solaris OS virtualization, Oracle application middleware and Oracle database products. URLs to the Siebel CRM white papers: Optimized Solution for Siebel CRM 8.1.1 : A Technical White...
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Oracle's Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft HCM 9.0
Posted on 00:24 by Unknown
According to Oracle Corporation: Oracle's optimized solutions are applications-to-disk solutions that are comprised of Oracle's Sun servers, storage, and networking components, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications. To be clear, an optimized/optimal solution is neither a software package nor a hardware system bundled with pre-tuned software. It is simply a set of recommendations based on some testing performed in labs. The recommendations typically provide sizing guidelines for...
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Instructions to Turn ON/OFF Hardware Prefetch on SPARC64 Systems
Posted on 00:58 by Unknown
The hardware prefetch is ON by default on M-series servers such as M8000/M9000, M4000/M5000, M3000 The following excerpt is from a SPARC64 document: Hardware speculatively issues the prefetch operation based on the prediction that there is high possibility to access to the following continuous address in the future, if there have been load accesses for a consecutive address. Although this feature is designed to improve the performance of various workloads, due to the speculative nature, not all workloads may benefit with the default behavior. For...
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