Thanks for the info. I hadn't considered blades. We'll definitely check it out.
Thanks again and hope all is well. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Rosenzweig Vice President, Information Systems Application Development and System Administration Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. 9125 Rehco Rd. San Diego, CA 92121 (858) 453-7845 x3125 (858) 638-2120 fax mailto:[email protected] Think before you print -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Fitzgerald Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 2:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Universe in the cloud?? I like the new IBM Blade Center H's. You can mix some scarily powerful AIX blades in the same enclosure as linux & windoze blades, and it's all dynamically virtual, running under PowerVM. I was going to replace a pair of p570's with the new p750 express's, but with even the lower end (JS23; you may want to look at the JS43) AIX blades (at $17K apiece - list for the base JS43), I could get as much power on 4 blades (maybe 3) as my 2 p570's (12 cpu's each). http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/js2343/index.html > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:20:01 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [U2] Universe in the cloud?? > > Does anyone know of a large implementation of Universe in the cloud? We're > currently on an IBM P570 with 16cpu and 32gb of RAM. We're looking to upgrade > to a 48 processer box with 192gb of ram. Instead of buying a new box we're > thinking about running it in the cloud. We've got 2TB of data on an EMC > DMX4500. This box does primarily batch processing with about 500 concurrent > users. > > Additionally, I know most cloud providers don't support proprietary Unix like > AIX, but prefer Linux. If anyone knows of a similarly sized Linux > implementation, cloud or not, I'd like to get some info on that as well. > > Thanks in advance. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Eric Rosenzweig > Vice President, Information Systems > Application Development and System Administration > Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. > 9125 Rehco Rd. > San Diego, CA 92121 > (858) 453-7845 x3125 > (858) 638-2120 fax > mailto:[email protected] > Think before you print > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
