On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 7/9/13 2:53 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> FWIW, the other experiment I've been meaning to try but haven't found > >>time > >> is to get a new laptop with an SSD and try mustella on it. I'm > >>convinced > >> Mustella is disk-bound and would get a significant boost from an SSD. > >> > >> -Alex > >> > > > >Some articles I have been reading suggest that Azure is all SSD [1] Maybe > >we already are running at top speed. > > > >-Om > > > >[1] > > > http://gigaom.com/2012/06/05/new-windows-azure-goes-all-ssd-to-one-up-amaz > >on-in-the-cloud/ > >[2] > > > http://www.nethosting.com/buzz/blog/microsoft-azure-cloud-service-updated- > >today-with-all-ssd-storage-and-a-new-api/ > > Hmm, that would disprove my theory since the full main run still takes 9 > hours. I don't know much about these VMs. How do they compare in CPU > performance against my 2-year-old Dell laptop (I3 processor)? > > -Alex > > These are the VM specs:
OS: Windows Server 2008 R2Datacenter SP1, 64-bit Processor: AMD Opteron Processor 4171 HE 2.09 GHz RAM: 3.50 GB -Om
