[Discuss] Surprises at the June Supercomputing conference

[Richard Pieri]

On Jun 21, 2011, at 9:20 AM, John Abreau wrote:
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> Would a BLU meeting on SPARC and possibly Solaris be of interest?
> What is Oracle doing with them?

Betting the bank on it.  The x86 architecture is getting there for high-end server use, but it isn't there, yet.  Alpha is dead.  That leaves SPARC and Itanium -- and Oracle recently announced that it will be dropping Itanium from its product support.

--Rich P.