[OAM-talk] Moving forward (was: Completing the OAM PSCelectionprocess)

[Maurizio]

> 120 rack mountable

just trying to visualize ...

4U? ... 200W?
=  24KW ... ooops!

:D

(apologies in advance)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey Johnson" <ortelius at gmail.com>
To: "Anthony" <osm at inbox.org>
Cc: "talk" <talk at openaerialmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:15 AM
Subject: Re: [OAM-talk] Moving forward (was: Completing the OAM 
PSCelectionprocess)


> Serving would certainly be an issue if we got 120 desktop machines with 
> 250
> gigs each (which we could probably find in the trash cans of some
> organizations).

If you can find 120 rack mountable desktop machines with 250GB each in
them and find a place to put them in a rack somewhere, we can
certainly put them to use ... would make a nice processing cluster
actually if they had reasonably modern processors.

> So, it's not *just* disk and bandwidth. But if CPU isn't an issue, 8
> servers @ 4 terabytes each seems like about the sweet spot in balancing
> cost, space, and power consumption.

On what are you basing that?

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