[Foss4g2009] Specs for a machine for the CCIP?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> For background the CCIP is defined here: 
> http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/ClimateChallenge2009/WebHome 
> 
> Basically: One server with multiple virtual machines
> 
> As yet, we have not defined our hardware requirements, and everything is 
> on the table as an option. (Especially since my experience with hardware 
> is largely limited to installing linux on computers I've found in 
> dumpsters).
> 
> So please speak up with all the advise you can fire at us.

Cameron,

Ah, OK.  Is there a defined VM technology?  VMWare seems to be the most
widely supported and well known.  Presumably Win32 (perhaps XP?) VM
instances will be available as well as 32bit linux instances?

Assuming that not all of the instances really need to be active at once,
I would hope that the memory requirements will not be the sum of the
memory requirements of the VMs.  Hopefully you would get at least 8GB
of RAM which should be enough to have several active VMs with fairly
beefy software running.

Ultimately, I hope you will keep an option for some participants to provide
their own server that can be plugged into the network but I do like the
convenience of a multi-VM main server as long as it is beefy enough.

Best regards,
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