[Chester LUG] A few bits and pieces

[Les Pritchard]

No problem

(btw for any GIS fans - my last email wasn't a poke at GIS - I just have
enough systems to manage as it is!)

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Stuart Burns
<stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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