Thanks very much to everyone who responded! I originally wrote:
>We are going to be moving to a Sparc 1000 multi-CPU system running Solaris
>2.4 as our primary database server in the near future. We may, however,
>be doing most of our development on a single-CPU Sparc 10. Will we need
>to maintain two sets of program executables for the single- and multi-CPU
>systems? Is there, in fact, any way or need to create binaries for
>multi-CPU systems? If so, are multi-CPU binaries compatible with
>single-CPU systems? Please respond by email, and I will summarize.
>Thanks!
>
I got the following responses (with some variance of opinion on the Sparc
1000!):
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 23:01:42 EST
From: wiz@telesis.COM (Karl Schendel)
no, you only have one set of binaries. You let Solaris do all the
work (which it will do quite effectively in general). There is no
difference between what you run on a single CPU and what you run
on multiple CPUs. Ingres and its libraries aren't MT-safe anyway
as far as I know, so you don't have any way to write to the Solaris
threads model at present. Solaris will still do a decent job of spreading
out the work, and you can run multiple DBMS servers on the SS1000 if
you want to.
Karl Schendel
Telesis Computer Corp
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 14:11:12 CST
From: mal@adc.com (Michael A Leo)
You can use the same binaries. We have done it for 2 years. SPARC 1000s
are wonderful machines. I want one in my basement.
Cheers,
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:26:25 -0800
From: phil@aegisstar.com (Phil Brown)
To: wse@jimmy.harvard.edu
No. However, it's a biiiig mistake to use a sparc 1000 for anything that
needs reliability, so I've heard.
Better off to just buy a sparc 10, quad-cpu configuration.
Or two, for half the price of the sparc 1000 :-)
-- Bill Edwards
Frontier Science (as of 7/1/94)/ECOG
303 Boylston Street; Brookline MA 02146
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