For me the only reason to buy higher specs is because I wanted to buy a
batch of interchangeable services machines aside of this I fundamentally
agree with Ian.
cheers
alessandra
On 10/01/2012 15:31, John Gordon wrote:
> But on the other hand one cannot anticipate future requirements so a higher spec does provide some future proofing. On the point of public money, we are being TOLD to spend a large amount of public money by the end of March. This is only part of it.
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Collier
>> Sent: 10 January 2012 14:45
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Proposed Server for GridMon and PerfSonar
>>
>> Just my tuppence, having been running perfsonar for a few months now,
>> but 4GB is ample. Also I CPU is plenty.
>>
>> Dual PSUs are not a bad idea, but far from essential.
>>
>> Mirrored disks are more or less essential.
>>
>> It looks to me as though the spec discussed is much (bordering on
>> grossly) over what is required.
>>
>> It is public money being spent. Specifying boxes close to the actual
>> load is really a good idea.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On 10 Jan 2012, at 14:37, "Santanu Das"
>> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>>
>> We think that the memory should be 24GB, as 16GB is not an optimal
>> configuration and suppliers will be reluctant to quote.
>>
>> -Santanu
>>
>>
>> On 10/01/2012 12:33, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> Hi,
>> The specification I came up with is for both GridMon and PerfSonar is
>> below.
>> My logic was to have a reasonably spec'd device which would meet any of
>> the monitoring requirements that we may have to support over the coming
>> 3 - 5 years.
>> The device can support a 10 Gigabit interface if required.
>>
>> However, there is a cheaper solution to this which is the Dell R610 for
>> PerfSonar.
>> The device is approximately £300 cheaper than the R410 below. It too
>> can support a 10 Gigabit interface.
>> It is theoretically possible that this device could also be used as the
>> Gridmon client as well.
>>
>> Therefore, could we have a quick discussion on which device we wish to
>> buy as we should have a standardised model across the UK for these
>> devices.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> PowerEdge R410 Rack Chassis for Up to 4x 3.5" Cabled HDDs and Intel
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>> Intel Xeon E5620 Processor (2.40GHz, 4C, 12M Cache, 5.86 GT/s QPI, 80W
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>>
>>
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