Xref: utzoo comp.arch:4690 comp.databases:980 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases Subject: Re: Unix machines for large databases Message-ID: <4860@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 7 May 88 23:14:19 GMT References: <428@cmx.npac.syr.edu> <41647UH2@PSUVM> <30952@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Reply-To: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu Followup-To: comp.databases Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 20 esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) writes: >UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes: >>billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O) says: >>>Help! By Friday we need to know if there is a Unix-based box that >>>can work as a very high-performance data-base server. Yes, there are >>Sure there is. You can run Unix on a Cray. >Or on an Amdahl 5890/5990 running UTS. You may have a floor space >problem past several Tb. Check out optical disk drives. I believe DEC is now selling them for the VAX line; I'd immagine that most other vendors have similar products in mind. They can solve your floor space problems well beyond "several Tb", and, being write-once-read-many (WORM) are well- suited to an application requiring a permanent history. Typically they are large enough so that you don't fill them very fast even if you don't care about a permanent record. ;-D on ( Bliss is Bliss, Ignorance is Ignorance, I'm happy ) Pardo