Eric Barro
ebarro at verizon.net
Thu Jun 28 12:33:20 CDT 2007
With the 8 cores and tons of memory you should look into VMWare for virtual servers. That way you can easily restore a virtual server should the need ever arise. You can even set one or two VMs up to be test machines, etc... -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:25 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] The Business Side Of Databases Well, I like the slower machine idea!!! Great minds think alike. In fact I am searching EBAY for some old Commodore 64 machines to make my servers. ;-) Seriously though, I have no idea how to calculate FLOPS, never mind the fact that FLOPS stands for FLOATING POINT operations per second. So do you mean FLOPS committed to a specific process or time scaled by FLOPS capability of the specific machine? Then you get into "what about disk access time", and "speed of network connection" and whatever you can think of. In fact I used an "older" machine (a single core AMD X64 @ 3.0 GHz with 3 GB ram BTW) to run the address validation because that process required a LOT of memory and thus choked when run on one of my newer machines running SQL Server. SQL Server tends to grab all of the memory for itself and needs a lot anyway. Thus the "older" machine is not a slacker by any means, it is just not one of my new dual core SQL Server machines. For the moment I am just using crude manual adjustments of the $/hour for a specific job. I can make that more or less depending on the machine on which the job runs. I am logging the machine that runs the job. I do like the idea of using a FLOP calculation though. This fall I will be buying another server with 8 cores and a ton of memory. Obviously the cost of, and thus the value of time on a machine is related to it's power so knowing the power of the machine and charging based on the machine processing power will make sense. Thanks for mentioning that. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:36 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] The Business Side Of Databases Hi John Great idea! Slow machine => longer computing time => larger bill => big pockets at John. Or should you charge by the flop? /gustav >>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 28-06-2007 18:23 >>> One of the things I am doing to generate an income stream is to "rent computer time" - NOT what you might imagine!! .. I can have (as an example) one of my old machines running the address validation job. .. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.10/876 - Release Date: 6/28/2007 10:56 AM