[FRIAM] Large Memory Java Applications

[Owen Densmore]

Having worked at Sun, where an E10,000 or three were available for  
our use in the labs (64 processor, huge memory), I remember  
rebuilding a huge shell script to be able to run in parallel a power  
law exploration:
   http://www.backspaces.net/sun/PLaw/

The job went from over night on a really fast laptop, to 15 minutes.   
Looking at the multi-processor perfmeter was like looking on a bunch  
of boxes catch fire!

     -- Owen

Owen Densmore
http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org


On May 26, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> Jim Rutt wrote:
>> $2 million of Sun stuff replaced $50million of Plug
>> Compatible VM mainframes.  That project, though was done using C  
>> and a homebrew in memory knockoff of adabase.
>>
> Ah, right, then there's the question of what kind of database that  
> could
> store all of the data and access it fast enough (either for  
> streaming or
> for parallel traversal).
>
> Someone in our group went to the recent MySQL conference and heard
> mention of their `Falcon' backend (that I guess they started because
> Oracle bought up InnoDB) that's in development.   Below is a link to
> some notes on the talk, sounds intriguing to me..
>
> http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2006/04/jim_starkey_int.html
>
>
>
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