Re: VA Research update

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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What are you guys doing that *needs* that kind of horsepower?  Just how
big/complex are these tables?  Since you're not doing DB queries on the
fly (static pages) what is the bottleneck you expect to hit first?  Even
a 1GB ht://dig DB is quite searchable (it's DB2).

Anyways, how much disk, RAM do you expect to need in the long-term: 1 year
from now?

Also, what kind of Netfinity?  They've got a lot of different models.

> Right now, we're trying to get our hands on a fat Alpha box, or possibly an
> IBM Netfinity.  Would much rather have the Alpha than the IBM, but gotta try
> for whatever we can get. Of course if VAR would be willing to cough up a 3000
> (Looks like we'll need that much horsepower), we should still pursue the
> opportunity in case the IBM or Alpha deals do fall through  :(


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