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Re: [LUG] hardware: server

 

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Adrian Midgley wrote:
|
| Seriously though, I have on my browser the Dell site, with a quote
well in
| excess of that for a 2800  with a SCSI RAID, 2 Xeons,3 GHz of RAM
(I expect
| the main database to reach 1.2 GByte by the midlife refit for the
next
| machine, and I'd like it all in RAM to work on, plus a KDE/Gnome
session for
| each user running OpenOffice and Mozilla and Solitaire.

1.2GB databases - oh what Oracle called "small" back in the 90's ;)

Does that include indexes?

| I might be going over the curve for requirement, but we do know
that decision
| support stuff demands grunt and I'd like to commission some.

I think people need to reevaluate what they mean by grunt.

These days the desktop machines exceed the single processor
capabilities of the Cray the Met Office had when I joined.

One of the (admittedly expensive) rackmounts I saw recently could
expand to the same I/O bandwidth as the old Cray C90's, when you
think the Cray I/O stuff was probably all done for GCHQ and their
like at the time.... This throughput would handle all the traffic in
the London Internet Exchange quite easily!?!

Sure if you think it is going to be ploughing through all of big
databases regularly sticking it in RAM is a reasonable option, but
even many low end servers support 4GB+ these days.

There is a reason most machines spend most of their time with almost
zero CPU usage these days.
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