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- Windows or Linux? Past testing by researchers have yielded faster processing on servers running Linux than Windows. Some researchers only comfortable working within Windows.
- If Windows, how will user accounts and access work? How many simultaneously? Per user or shared accounts? How manage contention, if desired?
- Coordinate monthly (or every 3 months) shutdown periods to ensure baseline patching and OS, file-share and hardware checking.
Server spec
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suggestions and costs
| Criteria | Current deskop's specs | ~4 * desktop specs is minumum proposed server | Cost increase if go up about a level | Borrowed Dell's specs |
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| Cores | 4 cores (not hyper-threading-capable, HT) | 16 cores (and HT-capable) | $xx: 16 cores => 20 cores $xx: 16 cores = 24 cores | Q: Testing performance difference between using HT and not using HT? | |
| Storage, SSD | 500 GB | 2 TB | $800: 2 TB => 3TB $1,700: 2TB = 3.8 TB | SSD (size n/a) | If Windows, buy $xx software on server (free clients) to enable moving large amounts of data to server more speedily. Large amounts of data not needed to be stored on server, nor moved from server (simply deleted after processing). |
| RAM | 32 GB | 128 GB | $xx: 128 GB => 256 GB? |
| Other |
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- Processor's cores:
- Storage: 500 SSD => *4 => 1TB SSD
- Result:
Need: UPS ($xxx) Option: Redundant power supply unit $xxx) | n/a | |||
| Approx. cost | ~$800 | ~$xxx | n/a | $xxx |
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Status
10/5/17: Oliver met with Mahdi <mh2356> and Kushal <ks2285>. Action steps to have Peng review and refine:
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