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19990412: system configurations

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  • Subject: 19990412: system configurations
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:32:58 -0600
>From: Anthony Rockwood - MSCD Meteorology <address@hidden>
>Organization: Metropolitan State College of Denver
>Keywords: 199904091609.KAA17963 system configuration

Tony-

>As far as new equipment goes, I now have $17,000 (NSF+MSCD) to spend, and

Pretty amazing what you can get for 17K nowadays.

>I'm in the process of getting quotes from our state vendors for various
>hardware configurations.  I'm starting with
>
>1 server -     Pentium III, 500mhz, 512 cache, 512mb ram, 
>               25gb hard drive, 16mb video ram, 21" monitor

I would recommend 2 smaller hard drives (preferrably SCSI).  Make
the first one 8 Gb which will hold the OS and programs, and use
the other for data storage (volatile stuff).  There is a problem
with Solaris and Linux accessing all sectors of a boot drive 
larger than 8 Gb, so that is why I suggest a smaller boot drive.

>4 clients -    Pentium III, 450mhz, 512 cache, 256mb ram,
>               8gb hard drive, 16mb video ram, 21" monitor
>
>1 laptop -     Pentium II, 333mhz, 128mb ram, 4gb hard drive, 8mb video

These others sound fine.  Make sure any video cards are supported
by the operating system you are going to use.

You might also want to consider an internal ZIP or Jazz drive for
backing off datasets for case studies.  Since Rich wants to have
an archive of sat data, he could use this to store things.

>How does this look ?  Any suggestions you can make would be greatly
>appreciated.  I hope to be writing purchase orders within the next few
>weeks.  Maybe we can talk about it next week.

Lets talk about this on Friday after usercomm.

Don