Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Sat, 21 Apr: > Here's what we need: > > 1. The board and the processor should have a maximum memory of at least 64 > GB. > I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure 4 GB will not be enough for long, and would > rather think ahead.
I think you are living in a vacuum. Machines that support 64GB of ram also come with 8 or 16 slots of CPUs and a price tag of $50-100K and up and are used for enterprise heavy duty computations. there are less than 200 such machines in Israel... what you need is a good web server and DB. you could use 4GB but even 2 will do. Xeon is nice but a Core 2 Duo will do more than you need. If you send such a request to potential sponsors you will be laughed at. HARD. > 5. Hard disk - I think we need at least 500 GB, in several disks. One small > disk (about 40 GB will do I believe - possibly more) for the root partitions, > and 500 GB for storage. Possibly even more than 500 GB, because our mirrors > are accumulating more and more data. I suggest you aim for one of the nice storage-oriented machines out there. you have slots for 12 SATA disks, it can easely take 2.5GB in sane-priced disks, and they can be bought over time. -- Right on the tip of your tounge Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/
