Depending on how much cash you want to part with, look at a 64 node Apple X-Serve system. I experimented with this when I worked for a biotech firm - they were using it for genomics and proteomics research. This thing was scary fast - and the load it could handle was astounding.
http://www.apple.com/science/solutions/workgroupcluster.html regards, larry -- Larry C. Lyons web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyons -- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner - > We are looking to speed up our application layer as much as possible. > We've pumped the DB up substantially and had great results. I realize > there are network, load balancer, memcache, etc and other ways than > the hardware to have impact, but we want to buy whatever will give us > some gain. > > Unfortunately, we didn't notice with a dual quad core server a ton of > impact in the past and didn't seem to be able to get the full > utilization, so we just stayed with multiple servers instead of fewer, > beefier servers. > > Will 64 bit and many cores be the best for CF 9? Or less cores at > higher clock? > > Does more memory help much? > > How about SSD hard drives for local source code? I wouldn't expect > that, but somebody seemed to suggest that somewhere. > > Does CF Enterprise make a big difference? > > Should we change the JVM to a faster one? What would that be? > > > > Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:331767 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
