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Hi Mark, I'm fine with R610. cheers alessandra On 12/01/2012 15:56, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Hi Ewan and everyone else, > I think this is a fair analysis of the systems available. > Either box is an adequate client for Gridmon and PerfSonar. > I personally am agnostic to the network interface as it is upgradeable > for sites which require 10 Gigabit connections. > However, I am in agreement that we should come to a final answer on > this shortly. > > Therefore, I would consider the R610 for these roles. > > Can others comment on this if they feel that it is an appropriate > platform. > > Regards, > Mark > > On 12 Jan 2012, at 15:45, Ewan MacMahon wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB- >>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Mitchell >>> Sent: 10 January 2012 12:34 >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> So, to summarise: >> - We like the idea of things like RAID, redundant PSUs, and >> hot-swap disks for the sake of keeping things up, and for >> the sake of peaceful contented sysadmins, >> - We like 10Gbit cards, >> - We don't want to gratuitously overspend on pointless stuff. >> >> I think the R310 and R610 specs that I posted look reasonable, >> but it would be useful to get quotes from Dell for the R310 >> with a 10Gbit Ethernet card (and confirmation that it's >> capable of driving one at a decent rate, which is different >> from 'it basically functions'), and also for an R610 with a >> single CPU. >> >> Is that fair, or does anyone want to suggest anything else, >> because we want to get a final answer to this quite shortly >> so people can actually go buy things. >> >> Ewan > > -------------------------------------------- > Mark Mitchell, > ScotGrid Technical Co-ordinator, > Rm 481, > Kelvin Building, > School of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Glasgow, > G12 8QQ, UK > Telephone: +44-141-330 6439 > E Mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >