[Foss4g2009] Integration Showcase Machine 1

[Doug White]

Jody,

Good to catch up this afternoon.  I would say that machine spec is a 
good start point, although the stripe disk may have to be larger 
depending on data of course. 

Since disk is relatively cheap, I personally would normally opt for 
2x512GB disks in a raid0 stripe for data and 2x smaller disks (120GB?) 
for the OS and application software in a raid1 mirror.  Although this is 
a question of redundancy requirements?

If the machine is to use a Linux OS, then it could utilise software raid 
and LVM for this type of thing using standard SATA disks. Again, 
personal preference.

The CPU and memory seem fine... but maybe mapserver, geoserver, postgis 
developer lists would provide feedback on requirements in relation to 
processing vector and raster data.

Doug. White


Jody Garnett wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> Mark and myself are going to try and set up the first integration 
> showcase machine; as I would like to have a sample server to point 
> people to when the call for workshops goes out early next month. 
> Sticking with what we are comfortable with this machine will be set up 
> with MapServer/GeoServer/PostGIS and such sample data as people 
> actually donate in time (I am hoping for a range of raster and vector 
> data).
>
> So the question is ....
>
> How is this for machine specifications (based on this I am going to go 
> and try and round up the hardware).
> - 512 G Disk RAID 0
> - 4 gigs ram
> - 2 cpu (2 core each)
>
> We can go bounce this off the mapserver, geoserver, postgis developer 
> lists but I though I would start here.
> Jody
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