Linux Benchmarking

Peter plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 19 16:39:17 UTC 2005



On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Taavi Burns wrote:

> On 8/19/05, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>  Anyways, back to that spec sheet.  It was documenting a system used for
>> some Itanium/Linux-based database benchmark that got some pretty good
>> numbers.  The machine was pretty expensive, and the specs seemed sensible,
>> until you got to the fine print at the end where they mentioned the number
>> of 15K RPM SCSI disks required to accomplish the benchmark.  If memory
>> serves, it was 112 disks.
>
> Only 112?  Pfft.  That's nothing.
>
> http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=104111801
>
> It had 6400 36.4GB 15krpm FC disks, 140 73.4GB 15krpm FC disks, and 8
> 36.4GB 15krpm  SCSI.  That puppy had 90 FC PCI-X adapters. :)
>
> The 6400 disks accounted for $7 136 000 of the total system cost, beat
> only by the cost of 2TB or RAM: $8 912 896.

Would such a machine double as a cosmic radiation detector ? ;-) With 
that volume of active silicon it should be able to be used for radio 
astronomy imho.

Peter
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