The cheapest server with this capability would be a dual Athlon with 2-4GB of Registered ECC DDR SDRAM.
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=183 Something like this motherboard. Several different brands are available other than Tyan. http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT6472Y265 Something like this RAM, although you would need to go with brands other than Crucial in order to get larger than 512MB sized DIMMs. You can fit four of these cheap Crucial DIMMs into the Tyan motherboards for a respectable 2GB of RAM. I'd personally shell out the extra money and go for 1GB DIMMs and for 2-3GB, with banks open for a future upgrades if needed. http://www.3ware.com/ For your hard disks, use 3Ware 7000 series RAID controllers with regular IDE hard drives. You can buy several cheap 120 or 160GB drives and make RAID 1+0 or RAID 5 arrays for a fraction of the cost of SCSI RAID. You get full hotswap and hotspare capability, and larger storage sizes than SCSI. Yes SCSI can be faster, but you don't need that extra speed with LTSP. You mainly need massive capacity and failover redundancy. DO NOT BUY Promise or Highpoint IDE RAID controllers. They are very poorly supported on Linux. Very bad idea. Add several ethernet cards to spread out the bandwidth usage. 20 LTSP clients can easily eat the bandwidth of a single 100mbit ethernet port. http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe580tx/ This four port 100mbit ethernet card looks interesting, and appears to be supported by the Linux tulip driver. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Ableyev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:14 PM Subject: [luau] LTSP hardware > I was wondering if anyone could make a suggestion for hardware for a LTSP server that could, without slowdowns support 60 > simultaneous clients that would be able to run mozilla, star/open office apps, gimp, perhaps ximian evolution and, of course, a > popular desktop envronment like gnome or kde (all at the same time). > Approximately how much memory should it need? > What kind of CPU(s)? > Perhaps someone could suggest a ready server product from ibm or compaq or alike? > Also, do graphic apps (such as the Gimp) and presentation software create a lot of network traffic when used on a thin client? > > Thanks > Mike, the "I neva dun dat stuff"
