Technical thread for Server Discussion (merged)

[Elocin]

OK, so my friend sent 2 Opteron 848's by way of Priority mail to me today and I shoudl get them in the next couple of days or so. At which point I will turn around and send them off to Adlon ASAP. So the fix to ENWorld will be very nice and I can not wait to see the look of the new site.

I want to thank Morrus once more for putting so much time and effort into my home away from home. I am not sue what I would do without this site and I am glad I can contribute to is continuing existance.

Keep up the great work Morrus and the rest of the crew who so dedicate thier time to this great site and community. I just wish there was more I could do.

 

[Piratecat]

THANK YOU! That's great news; I've been on pins and needles, afraid it would somehow fall through at the last second.

 

[BSF]

Wow! That's great Elocin. Thanks for pursuing it and thanks to your friend for being so cool.

 

[ssampier]

I like that...

One machine Eric, the other Noah.

eric.enworld.org
noah.enworld.org

Offtopic, I like it! I can't add to the technical discussion, though (I'm an Intermediate computer user with schooling in database, networks, and hardware, but this is beyond me).

 

[IronWolf]

Nice job Elocin! That is quite the score!

 

[Sandain]

Hello,

We actually have electricity and computers down here in New Zealand! and as it happens in my spare time not role playing i'm a Server/network guy.

I apologise if any if these ideas have already been listed - its the basic stuff i'd do when speccing and building a server.

Mirror (RAID 0+1) 2 drives for the system drives, thse can be 10k rpm scsi drives since they wont be that busy.

Split the App volume and the data volume onto separate sets of other Mirrored drives - since access times are faster by far than RAID 5. get the best SCSI controller that you can and maybe invest in battery backup cache for it in case something bad hapens. I am not sure on block sizes for the disks I stick with standard but thats another way to get more efficiency from your raid sets.

2-4 CPU's will be fine, and 4 Gig of Ram should be plenty. Just make sure the box has enough room for expantion.

You will use load balanced NIC's? redundant power suppliers and fans?

Hrm, 5pm - i'm going home to my Hobbit Hole.

Good luck!

 

[Elocin]

Well I got the processors today in the mail and they look good. So I will be forwarding them on to Adlon tomorrow and I will guarantee that they get there. So Adlon will be able to continue the server shopping list.

 

[Krieg]

Morrus, Piratecat, Adlon et al

I just started an ENWorld team on IBM World Community Grid distributing computing project and was curious as to whether you would consider adding the two new servers to the project as well.

After all it is for a good cause.



http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.html

 

[Elocin]

I had a minor hickup yesterday and was unable to get to the the FedEx Store but I will get to one today at lunch and will ship the processors overnight to Adlon so he should get them tomorrow.

 

[Psionicist]

Morrus, Piratecat, Adlon et al

I just started an ENWorld team on IBM World Community Grid distributing computing project and was curious as to whether you would consider adding the two new servers to the project as well.

After all it is for a good cause.



http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.html

That's _not_ a good idea. Distributed projects use 100% processor time when it notice the computer is idle. The servers will never be idle (and if they are, the spare cycles should be used for database maintenence etc).