Comments on: Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:43:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/#comment-245579 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:38:49 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145178#comment-245579 In reply to Ken Teng.

The incremental cost is probably nominal, and the charge is zero. They have the same price.

]]> By: Ken Teng https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/#comment-245577 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:21:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145178#comment-245577 How much more expensive would you say an X11M is compared to an X10M? If they had similar motherboard ram, similar storage, etc., but if you essentially just changed from a “10” to and “11”?

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/#comment-245421 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:27:28 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145178#comment-245421 In reply to Freddell.

Oh yeah. That Oracle license is crazy town.

]]> By: Freddell https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/#comment-245400 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:36:58 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145178#comment-245400 They call the database 23ai and include OLLAMA support but the exadata or DBA is unable to leverage it. 🙂
Secondly, the HW cost of exadata must be minuscule compared to the Oracle DB license cost of 2880 cores.
Example:
1440*35000USD (EE street price with a few modules after discount)=50M USD!

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/#comment-245377 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:42:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145178#comment-245377 In reply to Hubert.

I like the way you think, Hubert.

]]> By: Hubert https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/oracle-revs-up-exadata-database-machines-to-x11m/#comment-245272 Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:54:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145178#comment-245272 Great points about GPU-accelerated vector searches (and analytics; viz Heavy.AI, Kinetica, SQream)! Maybe, in-between the 96-core 9J25 and 32-core 9J15, the Exadata X11M line (or the next version) could consider a 48-core MI3J0A that would resemble an MI300A, but with 6 CPU-chiplets and 4 GPU-chiplets (instead of 3 and 6 in the 300A) … it might be the perfect chip to balance performance between those workloads that benefit nicely from GPU acceleration and those that don’t. And they could name it the H variant, for Hybrid (or Hubert – eh-eh-eh!).

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