<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Bitstream Vera Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Friday 19 Jun 2009, Stuart Burns wrote:<br>
> Hi Everyone,<br>
><br>
> Firstly, does anyone have a usb floppy drive I could borrow. I made the<br>
> mistake of getting a iDeq mini system and it has a major issue where if you<br>
> try and do any sustained data transfer to a USB device it just crashes out<br>
> hard.<br>
><br>
> I am hoping the bios update will fix it but it can only be done from a<br>
> floppy drive. How 1980s is that!<br>
><br>
> Secondly, and this is where it will get your geek juices really really<br>
> flowing.<br>
><br>
> At work we do a lot of GIS reporting (creating reports based on 3d maps)<br>
> Now I was just speaking to the guy who runs these reports (They get a dozen<br>
> 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<br>
> kid you not. Each report takes 48 hours. I suggested they get a super<br>
> 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)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Wish we all lived in that world ;)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> Put simply<br>
> each 10% quicker it can go, it could save up to two weeks of peddle to<br>
> metal computing per year.<br>
><br>
> I was thinking along the lines of a top of the line AMD (This program can<br>
> 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>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>http://www.transtec.co.uk/GB/E/products/servers/CALLEO300/calleo_340_Intel.html<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>configure to your hearts content.<br>
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> Lastly, does anyone have any experience of add in Compute boards. I am<br>
> interested to know, but not going to splash out 2.5K on a board that may or<br>
> may not improve performance.<br>
><br>
> Anyhow, interested to know peoples thoughts.<br>
><br>
> Stu<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>-- <br>
Dr. David Holden.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>See: <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html><br>
regarding Word or PowerPoint. GPG key available on request.<br>
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