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C4040-251 · Question #1
A customer needs a new server for their database currently running on a 16-core POWER7 4.1 GHz based server. Oracle has informed the customer that their SPARC T5 based servers are best suited for…
The correct answer is D. The number of threads cannot guarantee better performance. Servers based on POWERS have. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
A customer needs a new server for their database currently running on a 16-core POWER7 4.1 GHz based server. Oracle has informed the customer that their SPARC T5 based servers are best suited for running databases, because the SPARC T5 has eight threads per core, while the current servers only allow for up to four threads per core. Which of the following statements could be correctly used to repudiate the Oracle claim?
Options
- ADatabases are mostly single-threaded workloads. Scale-out POWERS servers have higher clock
- BOracle T5 Servers are engineered to run Oracle workloads faster.
- CMore threads will implicate more licensing for the database software.
- DThe number of threads cannot guarantee better performance. Servers based on POWERS have
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