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The bulk
of software today is written for a 32-bit processor. It can meet the requirements
of almost any end user. However that is not the case when dealing with
servers processing large amounts of data with complex calculations of
very large numbers. That is where 64-bit architecture comes into play.
It can
boast improved scalability for business applications that enables to support
more customer databases and more simultaneous users on each server. Besides
a 64-bit kernel can access more system resources, such as memory allocation
per user. A 64-bit processor can handle over 4 billion times more memory
addresses than a 32-bit processor. With these resources, even a very large
database can be cached in memory.
Although
many business applications run without problems on 32-bit systems, others
have grown so complex that they use up the 4 GB memory limitation of a
32-bit address space. With this large amount of data, fewer memory resources
are available to meet memory needs. On a 64-bit server, most queries are
able to perform in the buffers available to the database.
Some
32-bit applications make the transition to the 64-bit environment seamlessly
others do not. For instance, system-level utilities and programs that
provide direct hardware access are likely to fail. Our program offers
a full-fledged support of the 64-bit architecture providing fault-tolerant
work for such system dependent modules as Hot Processing.
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