[Chester LUG] A few bits and pieces

[Stuart Burns]

Hi everyone.

There are some very good questions there. I will get some more answers on
Tuesday when I am in next.

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.

The software in question is called FME and the website is safe.com

The rest of the information I shall get on Tuesday.

Les - Thanks for that. I will email you about picking it up, if thats ok?

Stu

2009/6/19 Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>

> Hi Stuart,
>
> I'm afraid I avoid GIS in work!  But I can lend you a USB floppy drive if I
> can dig it out.
>
> Les
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Stuart Burns <
> stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I am hoping the bios update will fix it but it can only be done from a
>> floppy drive. How 1980s is that!
>>
>> Secondly, and this is where it will get your geek juices really really
>> flowing.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 ;)
>>
>> The data set (40 GB) comes from a SAN.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> Around 24 GB RAM
>> 2 * 15K SATA 500 GB in a raid stripe config.
>> 1 GB NIC as the data comes from a fibre
>> bonded FC4 Fibre cards.
>> 1 GB Dual head video card with onboard acceleration.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  Anyhow, interested to know peoples thoughts.
>>
>> Stu
>>
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