Re: Help with hardware choices
Sorry for the slow reply. We are entering "Panel Season" here at work
and I have been tied down in Grant Review Panel Meetings since I last
posted.
Thanks to all who replied. I was not expecting the response I got, but
that is a good thing ;-)
>From what everyone has said, it looks like either the Opteron (AMD64)
or the Xeon (Intel?) is the way to go.
Should I ask for more advice from the AMD64 folks? Is that port
actually progressing better than the SPARC port?
Also, just checking, but is the Xeon processor going to run the i386
code, or is there another port I should be using there?
Thanks again for all the advice. Looks like you kept me from making a
reasonably poor choice.
Luck,
Dwarf
On Mar 30, 2005 6:24 PM, Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org> wrote:
> In article <643bacd1050330074572ccab97@mail.gmail.com> you write:
> >I have been tasked with picking the hardware, and my feeling is that
> >SPARC offers the best bang for the buck. I have been pointed at two
> >different lines of machines by a Systems Engineer for Sun here in
> >Tallahassee, but I was hoping that you guys would have a better idea
> >of what I can expect from these machines.
> >
> >Obviously it must run the Debian SPARC port, and while the Sun webpage
> >lists Linux as a supported OS, they reference things like Red Hat
> >Enterprise, which doesn't make it clear whether Debian is supported.
> >(I mean to have a talk with them about that as well ;-)
>
> Sun makes good reliable, but not cheap, hardware. However, I would
> not recomend getting a new Sparc system to run Debian. Sparc is one
> of the architectures that may not make it into etch (the release after
> the upcoming sarge) and is generally not as well supported as x86
> machines. Debian sparc developers tend not to have the latest
> hardware, so there may have been no testing on your configuration.
>
> For the stated application, I'd look at server class Opteron (AMD64)
> or Xeon systems. You need to trade off absolute specs for
> reliability, and don't forget to look at having a backup system as way
> of gaining that reliablility.
>
> --
> Blars Blarson blarson@blars.org
> http://www.blars.org/blars.html
> With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.
>
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