Re: Advice on server spec

Though somewhat more expensive, you may want to consider a dual AMD 64
Opteron system.  You might be able to start with a single processor.  I
currently procure systems from Monarch Computers.  The specs are Supermicro
4u tower or rack mount chassis with 10 hot plug SCSI trays and triple power
supply, two Opteron 248 processors, Arima motherboard, 8 gig DDR, LSI
Megaraid 320-2 disk controller, 15k scsi disks, DVD +- R/W, DLT tape, etc.
This comes to about US $10,000.  SLES 8 (soon 9).   Much faster than the 4
processor Xeon systems I manage.




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[email protected] wrote:
 > Sounds good. I'll check they are licensed for SMP. BTW does a
 > hyperthreaded cpu could as one or two processors for Lotus licensing?

It is just undefined. Licenses only speak from CPU(s). They leave
open meaning the touchable one thing inside any PC or the actual
implementation of this thing. At the moment a Power 4 with two
independent kernels is not clear counting for 2 or 1 CPU.

Hyperthreading is sort of multitasking on CPU level. I am sure this
can't count for two CPU! But since Intels marketing wants us to
think of it as two CPUs in one package --- you can't be sure what
IBM/Lotus will make out of it!

--
Thomas

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