[Hcoop-discuss] Sun Fire servers

[Justin S. Leitgeb]

Sun Fire servers might not be a bad idea, following Nathan's 
suggestion.  I just looked at them for the first time, and the energy 
efficiency, on-board RAID 0,1, 4 gigabit ethernet ports and SAS would be 
very nice.  I know that I didn't fully appreciate how much power servers 
could use until I started working in a data center with 300+ servers -- 
the amount of electricity that data centers consume is really massive.

In my last email I mentioned the Dell 1850 only because I've seen 200+ 
of them run well in production.  Certainly open to other ideas, and I 
was already thinking that AMD might be a better way for us to go.  Below 
is a link for the Sun Fire X4100 that may be helpful for anyone interested.

http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/features.jsp

Justin

ntk at hcoop.net wrote:

>
>Just throwing this out there, but what do you tech folks think about using
>alternate architectures, say Sun Fire servers?  At least for the main
>static web/mail server, perhaps for the file server, and then some solid
>Intel server for the login node?
>
>-ntk
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