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#101270 27-Apr-2012 18:41
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An Intel Engineering Sample server just landed here. Basically an Intel S2600GZ Server Board, with two Intel Xeon E5 2690 Sandy Bridge, 128 GB RAM and 2x 200 GB SSD. Obviously a very low powered on board video, as this is a server, not a desktop machine





I am running some benchmarks, but what kind of applications would you folks run on a machine like this? Have fun with the replies...





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  #616226 27-Apr-2012 18:52
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Could visualize all computers in my house / my work and our servers with ram to spare



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#616231 27-Apr-2012 18:55
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How about running Biddle com?

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  #616235 27-Apr-2012 19:20
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What would be the total cost of this machine?



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  #616236 27-Apr-2012 19:22
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Good question. I have no idea but will find out.




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  #616237 27-Apr-2012 19:22
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Yep, got one of those at work too.. pretty sweeet.

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  #616241 27-Apr-2012 19:31
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Seems a bit much for a media server....maybe for the whole suburb....




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  #616244 27-Apr-2012 19:38
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paragonOfGeek: Seems a bit much for a media server....maybe for the whole suburb....


Maybe several (i.e. 10+) HD tuners covering DVB-T and DVB-S2 plus playback streams would start to show.

However, I would suggest BOINC would be fantastic on this and would make a measurable impact on any project.


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  #616246 27-Apr-2012 19:51
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BOINC... Good idea.




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  #616252 27-Apr-2012 20:11
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I will also be loading Hyper-V and an image of Geekzone - to play with upgrading to Windows Server 2008 R2 and doing some SQL DB Profiling - I expect the DB testing to be a lot faster than our dev server.




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  #616261 27-Apr-2012 20:24
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hmmmm, got some storage to go with it?
With ESXi you could run the equivalent of a small datacentre on that box.

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  #616459 28-Apr-2012 10:08
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2 SharePoint Servers and ... oh, you need more RAM.

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  #616464 28-Apr-2012 10:13
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but seriously, to pace it out. SharePoint, Exchange, WHS2011 (transcoding places a lot of processor burden)

Some Linux distros with Java applications, WebSphere is a good one, that'll use some proc and RAM. SVN and TeamCity would be nice.

TFS, build agents and Remote Desktop Services (terminal Services) with Visual Studio [not sure that VS will support TS, but worth a shot]

A TMG and WSUS cluster will eat up some of that left over RAM

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  #616466 28-Apr-2012 10:19
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Run geekzone on it for a few days!
I am sure your telstraclear connection can handle it! (Joke)




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  #616469 28-Apr-2012 10:22
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While I do have 100 Mbps down, the up is still 10 Mbps. It should be ok to handle Geekzone (since we use CDNs) but it would still have problem with traffic in busy hours.

Other than this, the server has 10 times the memory on the Geekzone server, and one extra Xeon processor, and of a newer generation. It should run Geekzone in one of the cores...

I am going to restore a VHD with the Geekzone database later today to run the SQL profiling though and measure transaction times. We currently have Geekzone DB almost 100% in memory, so the SSD should mainly help in transaction logging.




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  #616472 28-Apr-2012 10:25
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Woah.. I can haz more cpu cyclez ? :)




 

 

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