Oracle Reveals Storage Server With Multicore CPUs

By Alex Handy

September 25, 2008 — Oracle is getting into the hardware business.

CEO Larry Ellison yesterday unveiled the HP Oracle Exadata Programmable Storage Server (EPSS), a joint effort between his company and Hewlett-Packard. This 12-drive rack-mount storage server includes a multicore CPU in each rack and the ability to run Oracle's Parallel Query Database software. That means developers can pass queries right to the storage grid and return only the data needed, rather than disk blocks.

Ellison said that the EPSS was created to address the data bandwidth problems experienced by modern database servers. “Large databases now have reached around 200TB,” said Ellison in his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld show. “Those databases are tripling in size every two years. That creates a fundamental problem. The disk storage systems available today simply cannot cope with the amount of data that has to be moved off those disk drives and into the database servers. There's a huge bandwidth problem.”

With that, Ellison announced that the Linux version of the EPSS was available for order immediately, with other versions arriving shortly thereafter. He also went on to announce the development of the HP Oracle Database Machine, a single rack of servers that includes 64 Intel processor cores and 14 EPSS servers. The rack can store more than 100TB of data and achieve throughputs of up to 14GB/sec.

Oracle's hardware systems have been in development for more than three years, said Ellison, and have been tested by customers in the field for the past year.

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