On Feb 5, 2011, at 5:01 AM, Tom Parker wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:18 -0500, Andra DuPont wrote: >> I have deployed two servers using netbooks. One is an Acer Aspire One 532h >> and >> the other is an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB. Both are using the Atom 450 processor at >> ~1.67 Ghz with 1 GB ram. I put 500 GB hard drives in each, which added $75. >> They cost about $325 after hard drive upgrade. They consume about 10W. They >> of >> course do have fans, and it will be some time before I can give you a >> reliability report. >> They are being used in a dry (almost desert like) area of Kenya, and they >> are in a mud >> wall building with a metal roof that stays fairly warm ~90 F. So far, so >> good. This is not >> "recommended" hardware per se, but it is cost effective and low power. > > How many students are these servers supporting? There is actually quite > difference between atom cpus, the I have a D510 server and an N280 > laptop and the D510 is significantly faster for video encoding. I > haven't looked at integer/logic type operations. > There are 100 laptops at this location. I have been there when 30 were on at once, and all was good. That said, the Atom 450 is not a dual core processor. As I gain experience with these servers I will send some updates on the performance.
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