Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Tue Jun 26 01:40:10 CDT 2012
It's my understanding, however, that MemSQL only supports 64-bit platforms, which most likely means that those machines would have to have to be designed for 64bit processors (following the amd64 spec I would imagine). It's not likely those machines from govt surplus meet those requirements (probably 32bit celerons or whatnot). - Hans Sent from my iPhone On 2012-06-25, at 7:24 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > The government surplus recycling distributor was selling lots of old beater > boxes, that had 4GB RAM and a 100GB HD, 1.87GHz for $35.00 per box and they > were all guaranteed to be in working (functioning) order. They only had XP > on them but you would just be installing Debian/Ubuntu on them anyway. > > The only down side was you had to buy a case-lot of one hundred. But for > $3,500, you could build yourself a pretty fair node cluster. You would have > to re-wire your house or apartment or course. The good news is you would > never have to turn on heat again but you would have to buy share in the > local hydro company...can you imagine the costs of running 3 > air-conditioners 24x7? > > Aside: Google has all the computers out of their cases, just the > motherboards, plugged in, side by side, in a tower of three or fours levels > with big fans at the bottom blowing up, row after row. They have > air-conditioning ducts that are big enough to drive a small car down. > (That's why they have set up in northern Washington, as who can beat > electricity at 0.03 a kilowatt.) > > And finally, that "high-speed" internet might have to be upgraded; half a > dozen broadband 500 connections and your ready for business. ;-) > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 6:29 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MemSQL Claims to be Fastest Database on the Planet - > 80, 000 queries per second > > In The Google Story, it said that the whole design was to use thousands of > off-the-rack boxes and never repair any of them, just swap them out > whenever anything broke. So I conclude that there was no necessity to buy > server-class machines, but rather lots and lots of consumer boxes, and to > regard them as no more important than disposable razors. > > Which is not of course to say that serious boxes would be wasted. Obviously > not. But even buying current boxes one at a time, retail, 8 gigs of RAM and > 4 cores are not much money, especially when you don't need a keyboard or > monitor or mouse or dvd burner etc. Imagine what the price is when you buy > in hundred-lots or thousand-lots. > > A. > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com