[Benchmarking] Test System Specs

[Paul Ramsey]

Feedback on Mike's offer? It looks pretty good to me... are we concern
about Xen and such?

P

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Smith, Michael
ERDC-CRREL-NH<michael.smith at usace.army.mil> wrote:
> All, here’s what I can provide
>
> 1). Dell 2850 with dual Xeon (have to check Ghz) and at least 32Gb ram.
>
> 2). Dell 1950 with dual Xeons, again I’ll get full specs in the next day or
> so.
>
> And I can provide them on the public internet. We have a Verizon DSL line we
> use here for testing outside firewall access with a static IP). We can NAT
> this to have both systems available and you’d just have to ssh or http on
> non standard ports for one of the machines.
>
> We also have some 32gb Intel X-25 SSD drives we can add to these servers as
> well (I think we have 4 available).
>
> Mike
>
>
> --
> Michael Smith
> Remote Sensing GIS Center
> CRREL - ERDC
> US Army Corps of Engineers
> Hanover, NH
>
>
>
>
> On 6/9/09 8:04 PM, "Paul Ramsey" <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
>
> We appear to be stuck on systems.
>
> Mike, I think your offer is generous, but realistically systems that
> outside people can't get their hands on aren't going to work, it puts
> too much of a bottleneck in the process having only one pair of hands
> capable of altering the configuration and re-running the tests.
>
> Jeff suggested just renting a couple co-lo's. Absent someone coming up
> with a a pair of machines, that sounds like the best/only idea on the
> table. How long shall we wait until we pull the trigger on this? Shall
> we try harder to find a host?
>
> P.
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Michael
> Smith<michael.smith at usace.army.mil> wrote:
>> OS in Linux (Oracle Enterprise Linux which is Redhat).
>>
>> Unfortunately, we don’t have them available for remote access, they are
>> behind our firewall (DoD ya know).  But we can easily deploy new code from
>> snapshots and I’m set up to compile from svn repositories so I can accept
>> just code checked in somewhere.
>>
>> We also have 2 new servers coming in with Nahelem processors and around
>> 500tb of data storage for libLAS/Oracle work we are going to be doing. So
>> we
>> can see what effects the new Intel architecture has.
>>
>> We also have a 4 cpu/quad core AMD box set up with Xen server for testing
>> with different OS’s is you want us to do some OS comparisons.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 6/5/09  2:39 PM, "Andrea Aime" <aaime at opengeo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Michael Smith ha scritto:
>>> We have Oracle running on a 2 cpu quad core Intel box with
>>> Mapserver/Geoserver running on a separate 2 cpu quad core AMD  box
>>
>> Wow, that's some hardware indeed. OS?
>> And more importantly, could you give us remote access so that
>> we can tweak the servers, upgrade them and so on?
>> Usually these presentations involve some work against the
>> server code to improve the use case tested (actually one
>> of the best side effects, both servers can improve this way).
>>
>> Even if you cannot, I guess it would be interesting to
>> have that as a separate benchmark machine for the Oracle/SDE
>> case. If we cannot have access maybe we can provide you with binary
>> snapshots.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>>
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