I haven't seen the man ask support for messages/hour, 3M..10M..1B ? Or maybe I missed this question?
Zaid On 4/12/10 8:47 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, todd glassey <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4/12/2010 7:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >>> The man did say "carrier class" .. not "small webhost for four >>> families and dog". >> >> yes he did Suresh ... meaning that something larger and more secure than >> the off-the-shelf copy of Linux is needed. Funny the NSA and many others >> would disagree with you. > > I know of (and have been the postmaster for) multiple million user > installations that run happily on linux + postfix (and sendmail, > qmail..). > > None that run on one server running webmin, even a 3U server. > >> or layered as stages within a new system design based on GPU's which >> allow for the specific assignment of threads of control to specific >> processes. Imaging a cloud type environment running in a single GPU with >> the abililty to properly map threads to GPU threads. > > You don't have "single" of anything at all for large and well scaled > environments. > >> OK our server is 3U but that was because I wanted bigger fans inside >> it... The 1U single TESLA based email GW is exactly what you describe - >> a 512 thread CUDA based GPU with serious capabilities therein. > > So how many users do you run on that one 3U box? 100K? 300K? A > couple of million? :) > > The man said carrier class. And when you talk that you dont just talk > features, you talk operations on a rather larger scale than what > you're describing. > > --srs
