Saturday, April 03
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I've placed the order for the first of two (and eventually three) new servers.
Geek porn:
Next up is the 100TB caching server.
Update: Bonus! Apparently they were short of the 5650's, because when the server was built I got a pair of 5670's, which are even more faster. So overall it's nearly twice as fast as our current system - 12 x 2.93GHz CPUs (3.33GHz turbo) vs. 8 x 2.26GHz CPUs (2.4GHz turbo).
Udapte: Bonus two: For 24GB RAM, instead of installing 12 x 2GB modules like last time, they installed 6 x 4GB. That allows the RAM to run faster, and leaves me with 12 slots free for expansion. This server can go as high as 144GB with 8GB modules, though that gets kind of expensive...
* The weird number is because the clock speeds run in increments of 133MHz. The 2.26GHz chips are 17 x 133MHz, the 2.93GHz chips are 22 x 133MHz. Add 50% for the extra two cores per chip, and the performance ratio is 33/17 - almost but not quite double.
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I've placed the order for the first of two (and eventually three) new servers.
Geek porn:
Dual Xeon 5670 - 12 x 2.93GHz coresThat's 66% 94%* faster than our current main server; the other main change is that instead of a single SSD we have a RAID-5 array. Normally you'd avoid RAID-5 for databases, but with 28,000 IOPS from a single device, it doesn't really matter any more (unless, like at my day job, you are doing over a thousands transactions per second). Since I set up our current server I've seen a few of those drives spontaneously implode, so this makes me a lot happier. Also gives us better performance and more space, of course; we've used up about half of our current SSD and some things I'm doing now will use about half the remaining space, so we'll need it.
24GB RAM
RAID Controller (Adaptec 5805)
3 x 2TB drives (RAID-5)
3 x 32GB SSD (RAID-5)
Gigabit network
CentOS 5
Next up is the 100TB caching server.
Update: Bonus! Apparently they were short of the 5650's, because when the server was built I got a pair of 5670's, which are even more faster. So overall it's nearly twice as fast as our current system - 12 x 2.93GHz CPUs (3.33GHz turbo) vs. 8 x 2.26GHz CPUs (2.4GHz turbo).
Udapte: Bonus two: For 24GB RAM, instead of installing 12 x 2GB modules like last time, they installed 6 x 4GB. That allows the RAM to run faster, and leaves me with 12 slots free for expansion. This server can go as high as 144GB with 8GB modules, though that gets kind of expensive...
* The weird number is because the clock speeds run in increments of 133MHz. The 2.26GHz chips are 17 x 133MHz, the 2.93GHz chips are 22 x 133MHz. Add 50% for the extra two cores per chip, and the performance ratio is 33/17 - almost but not quite double.
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Yay! New toys!
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, April 03 2010 03:38 PM (+rSRq)
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Might be even better, just waiting to confirm the final specs.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 03 2010 04:45 PM (PiXy!)
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It is even better - see the update to the post.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, April 03 2010 06:55 PM (PiXy!)
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