[ale] *Serious* motherboards?

[Charles Shapiro]

Or hey, maybes you should look at some of the Amazon services.  I just got
out of a lunch talk showing
Amazon's "EC2", "S3" and "SQS" services (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=3435361 ) . They're virtual
machines, virtual storage, and a message queueing service to talk between
the two.  You can spin up a linux virtual machine image in about a minute
with these.  The sample app involved converting about a dozen AVI files to a
format you could burn to a DVD disk which would play on a consumer DVD
player. Using a python script and interface library, a task that would've
pegged a winders machine for a couple of hours took about 10 minutes. Pretty
impressive.

I haven't bought anything from Amazon due to an FSF boycott, but that has
apparently ended ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html ).

-- CHS


On 9/13/07, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> In my day-to-day work, I need to have a bunch of different systems
> up and running in my software build+test environment.  Two build
> machines (one XP, one Linux), at least two and sometimes three XP
> servers, an XP workstation, and at least two and probably soon
> three Linux servers.  One of the Linux boxes runs a real-time simulation,
> which is pretty CPU- and RAM-intensive.  Another Linux box interacts
> with the simulation on a once/second basis.  One of the XP machines
> also interacts with the simulation once/sec, although not as intensely.
> The other boxes have more interactive or I/O-bound loads.
>
> I'm toying with the idea of having all this stuff sitting in a single
> box, though
> still realized as separate virtual servers.  I think I'd need a
> motherboard
> supporting at least 16GB of RAM, and probably a pair of dual-core CPUs.
> Plus appropriate case, PS, cooling, ...
>
> Every system I've built in the past has been made from bargain-basement
> parts. :-)  I am not sure where to begin researching such high-end
> hardware.
> Any suggestions for specific hardware I should look at,  or sites with
> reviews of such things?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- JK
>
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