[Benchmarking] Thoughts on 2010 exercise

[Jeff McKenna]

Ok thanks Mike.  We're very appreciative of the generous hosting by the 
US Arm Corps of Engineers.

-jeff



Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> That is our plan, longer term. We are in the middle of a server room 
> remodel and we plan to have a new higher speed line run into the server 
> room for purposes like these. We may upgrade the hardware but keep the 
> installed data/software as is. Then we could rerun the benchmarks from 
> 2009 to reset the baseline. I’m a little worried about the hardware 
> longer term.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Smith
> RSGIS Center
> US Army Corps of Engineers
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/25/09 11:21 AM, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> 
>     Now that we're refreshed from FOSS4G2009 I just want to make sure that
>     we are ready for the demands of the 2010 exercise.
> 
>     I see 2010 having more participants, which means a higher demand on our
>     infrastructure.
> 
>     One part that must improve is the speed that we can upload and transfer
>     data to the benchmarking servers.  Can we leave the benchmarking servers
>     where they are now but plug them into a faster line?  Thoughts?
> 
>     -jeff
>