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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.
| 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.
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.
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