[Tfug] Whats the biggest, most powerful/expensive system you have under your care?

[Steven Bowers]

A few years ago I managed a machine for a friend of mine. Several 
thousand at the time and near top-of-the line.

2.0Ghz P4
1GB RDRAM
2xU160, 10K, SCSI drives
SCSI CDRW
SCSI DVD-ROM
PCI card with 2GB RAM

He did a lot of database work and used the PCI card as a RAM drive (it 
was some sort of specialty card designed just for that purpose). Between 
the CPU, RDRAM, SCSI drives and that specialty card he was manipulating 
databases very, very quickly! Unfortunately it did not process my check 
nearly as fast <lol>!

Bowie J. Poag wrote:
> Whats the biggest, most powerful/expensive system you have under your care?
> 
> Currently, the biggest monster we have in production is a database 
> server.. for a very, very big database. You're probably in it.  :)
> 
> It's part of 2-node HACMP cluster. Each node in the cluster is a 4-way 
> SMP RS/6000 box (8-way logical w/ AIX 5.3, yaaay) w/ 12GB RAM, dual 2Gb 
> FibreChannel HBAs connected up to not one but two Sharks (Big f'ing 
> piles of massively redundant high-speed storage, about 10TB total).. 
> Virtualized, multipathed, and fully redundant front to back, top to 
> bottom. It's about a $1.1-1.3 million setup, not including support 
> agreements and whatnot.
> 
> ..We feed it small children every morning. Keeps the gears lubricated. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Bowie
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Tucson Free Unix Group - tfug at tfug.org
> Subscription Options:
> http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
>