On Saturday 20 October 2007 17:50, Neelesh Gurjar wrote: > > They can't spent money on hrdware of servers and their maintainance > and it's infrastructure.
Actually you can use any amd 64 mobo with sata drive and sufficient ram. The drives are quite fast. If the files the clients write are more than 2 MB use jfs else use reiserfs. Use one machine with reiserfs for dhcp + nfs boot, one with jfs for application serving and one more with reiserfs for /home. Your client machines will use their own local ram and X resources while executing. This drastically cuts the server requirements but "increases" the need for better capability clients - celeron 800 or better. However given that the cheapest mobo u can buy now is a via cle clients should not be a problem. In any case you will get only a slightly lesser performance once the app loads as compared to using a local disk. > There are max 50 PCs on one server. Instead of one server I want to > use normal PCs approx 2-3 by doing clustering. I have heard about > google. They have used normall PCs with cluster. The "normal" pcs are 64 bit systems with hughe ram and gigabit networks connected to massive storage arrays. By normal they mean high performance of the shelf components. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
