Stijn!!

[slodave]

Sweet! I'll have to start running to catch up to it!

[slodave]

It's incense, Rick. Sadly, I think ciggy (or cigar) smoke may provide the best results, but I can't bring myself to do that.

[Rick V]

Oh the joys of someone not listening to me. Beth went to do the OS update on her phone last night from GB to ICS and used her computer, the one that has multiple task bars and metric tons of bloatware on it. I went to bed about 10 and told her to wake me if there was a problem. She slept down here last night while baby sitting her phone.
I pulled her phone and did the update in ten mins on my laptop.
Women......

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by slodave

It's incense, Rick. Sadly, I think ciggy (or cigar) smoke may provide the best results, but I can't bring myself to do that.

If you leave the cardboard under a frozen pizza yet cook it anyway you get lots of smoke.

[pete3799]

MMMMMMorn'n

[GH85Carrera]

Yikes! Pete, that looks a bit cold. Scratch that, that is freaking COLD. I don't ever wanna see it that cold. I think -9 is the all time cold record for OKC. It is rare to see below 0 around here.

Good morning folks.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. It's 26 here this am and more freezing fog.

[GH85Carrera]

OK, D or Dave or any of you that want to play....

We are loving out new fast computers. However they are too slow. Right now one is churning on our blue whale project. To do all the steps it requires about 40 minutes per image. If everything works with no crashes it will still take several weeks of process time. The software license is for just one seat so we can't split the project up without spending 35K on another seat of the software. The software will happily run on a twin CPU machine with all the RAM possible. The project we are doing is 5,116 photos and each photo image 1.1 Gig. It makes a giant mosaic image of several thousand tiles. It will be over one TB as a final deliverable.

According to Microsoft Win 7 Pro can address 192 GB of ram.

We are doing the mental masturbation and wondering what is realistic to build. Our current computer motherboard can only hold 32 Gig max and that is what they have.

Lets play the build the dream machine. We want a rack mount, dual CPU multi-core computer with lots more RAM than the measly 32 Gig. It will have to have a top end 3D video card to do the stereo for aerial triangulation. And just a DVD drive to load software. Some sort of internal RAID with stripe & mirror 2 or 3 TB is size.

We will likely buy the computer after we get paid for the blue whale job.

[nynor]

okay, you need a server style setup, i think. give me a minute. budget?

[slodave]

One things for sure, move up to the Intel Xeon proc.

[nynor]

glen, email sent.

[nynor]

i think you have to go with xeon in order to put multiple processors on the board.

also, the xeons have a faster internal bus, among other differences.

[slodave]

If going rack mount, be careful when looking at 2U chassis. Most high end graphics cards will not fit, as they are not designed for low profile. there would have to be a riser card on the MB, turning the vid card 90*. A 4U chassis would allow for a normal card, but is quite big - almost like turning a normal desktop on its side.

[nynor]

4U for this build due to the number of drives and the DVD, also to allow for addition of graphics card(s) if necessary.

[Icemaster]

Gents - Opinions on this?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008BSIHQM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Time for a decent NAS.

[slodave]

I guess our ideas of a dream system differ.

[nynor]

Originally Posted by Icemaster

Gents - Opinions on this?

Amazon.com: Iomega StorCenter ix2 2TB Network Storage Drive (35547): Computers & Accessories

Time for a decent NAS.

looks good to me. i don't have much experience with them, however. dave will.

Originally Posted by slodave

I guess our ideas of a dream system differ.

how so? the size of the case? it is a compromise, based on what glen listed as must haves.

[GH85Carrera]

Our rack has lots of room still. 4 U is no problem.

D, it is cool that about $3,100 will get something like that. I have the receipt of a computer I bought on June 19th 1990. It was my dream machine at the time. It was a screamer. 25 Mhz 386, 4 Meg or RAM (meg not gig) 80 Meg hard drive (meg not gig), both floppy drives, a VGA video cad that maxed out at 1,046 x 768 in 24 bit color, and a 14 inch monitor and the other parts to make it all work. I paid $3,934.47 for that!

I did get Windows 386 and a Microsoft Mouse with a big steel roller ball as well. Oh and it came with a really fast 2,400 baud modem. It was FAST.

[nynor]

just to make sure we are looking at the same list, i see the cost as being close to $4200.

my first PC had similar specs as you described above. i cut my IT teeth on that machine.

[svandamme]

4 grand?? for a dream machine?
That's not a dream machine for what Glen does..

This is more dreamy...

Dell™ Precision™ R5500
Dual Xeon X5690 (Six Core, 3.46GHz Turbo, 12MB, 6.4 GT/s)
192 GB ram
Rack mount
2 x 6 GB NVIDIA Quadro 6000
6 or so Disks on a Perc I6 controller
Dual FX100 Remote Acces Host controllers & thin clients, so i don't have to sit next to a noisy beast of a computer

24 grand + depending on the disks used.. SSD for speed or platters for capacity...

That's the basic box.. now if i really wanna give it some stick and somebody pays the bill, i'de consider a Hardware RAM disk, which would offer the system a way to increase performance past the 192 GB of Motherboard ram...


perhaps something like this
ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk - The Tech Report - Page 1