Hi,
tsdnz wrote:
Thanks for responding, you make excellent points. You know a lot more about the hardware than I do. What hardware would you suggest?
I wouldn't suggest... The problem is that I don't actually know what "cloud" is supposed to mean.
Do you need a huge amount of permanent storage without much processing (cloud storage)? Do you need a large number of small/weak virtual machines? Do you need "high FLOPS" number crunching? Do you need low latency/high bandwidth networking between individual computers? Do you need fast Internet connections from "cloud" to the remote customer? The answers to these questions all depend on what "cloud" means to you, and what your cloud is intended to be used for.
tsdnz wrote:
I would like:
- 4-8 cores
- Memory not an issue, minimum 8GB, quick-ish, ECC
- 64 Bit, SSE2+, would like AVX, PCIe 2+ 8xSlot
- 2.0 GHz +
- And cost efficient
You'll find that there's a "sweet spot" where everything is cheaper because it's what most people end up buying. Your specs seem to be right in the middle of that sweet spot.
tsdnz wrote:
Brendan wrote:
To test what?
To test if the OS works efficiently on computers that cloud providers are likely to use you need computers that cloud providers are likely to use.
To test the code I need multiple servers running, a minimum of 5 just to get it started. Currently I have code running as separate "OS's" inside an OS....., this was fine but I am at the stage where this is impossible to do. (Things happened in life that reduced my money, time and assets. Not a divorce, very weird experience.... Now to rebuild)
So you're testing how hard it is to saturate a gigibit ethernet switch (and not testing anything to do with the OS)?
Cheers,
Brendan