Well so do I Les, but the geekyness is just awesome is it not. We all crave the GHz ;)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/19 Les Pritchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:les.pritchard@gmail.com">les.pritchard@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div>(btw for any GIS fans - my last email wasn't a poke at GIS - I just have enough systems to manage as it is!)<br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Stuart Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everyone.<br><br>There are some very good questions there. I will get some more answers on Tuesday when I am in next.<br>
<br>The data is as far as I am aware based on Sun NFS shares for the tiles and an oracle 10g database for the actual data (again based on a Sun box with a 100Mbit interconnect to the core backbone.<br><br>The software in question is called FME and the website is <a href="http://safe.com/" target="_blank">safe.com</a><br>
<br>The rest of the information I shall get on Tuesday.<br><br>Les - Thanks for that. I will email you about picking it up, if thats ok?<br><br>Stu<br><br>
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<div>I'm afraid I avoid GIS in work! But I can lend you a USB floppy drive if I can dig it out.</div>
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<div>On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Stuart Burns <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div>Hi Everyone,<br><br>Firstly, does anyone have a usb floppy drive I could borrow. I made the mistake of getting a iDeq mini system and it has a major issue where if you try and do any sustained data transfer to a USB device it just crashes out hard.<br>
<br>I am hoping the bios update will fix it but it can only be done from a floppy drive. How 1980s is that!<br><br>Secondly, and this is where it will get your geek juices really really flowing.<br><br>At work we do a lot of GIS reporting (creating reports based on 3d maps) Now I was just speaking to the guy who runs these reports (They get a dozen a week to run or so, depending on what is happening) can't cope.<br>
<br>Until now they have been running on a core duo laptop with 1 GB of ram. I kid you not. Each report takes 48 hours. I suggested they get a super machine ;)<br><br>The data set (40 GB) comes from a SAN.<br><br>Can anyone suggest a high end rig (Money more or less no object) Put simply each 10% quicker it can go, it could save up to two weeks of peddle to metal computing per year.<br>
<br>I was thinking along the lines of a top of the line AMD (This program can do 64 bit computing but doesn't do multiple cpus that efficiently)<br><br>Around 24 GB RAM<br>2 * 15K SATA 500 GB in a raid stripe config.<br>
1 GB NIC as the data comes from a fibre<br>bonded FC4 Fibre cards.<br>1 GB Dual head video card with onboard acceleration.<br><br>Lastly, does anyone have any experience of add in Compute boards. I am interested to know, but not going to splash out 2.5K on a board that may or may not improve performance.<br>
<br> Anyhow, interested to know peoples thoughts.<br><br>Stu<br><br></div></div>
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