[Chester LUG] A few bits and pieces

[Stuart Burns]

Well so do I Les, but the geekyness is just awesome is it not. We all crave
the GHz ;)

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

> 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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