From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: John Floren Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:09:52 -0700 Message-ID: To: erik quanstrom Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a507574e-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Jul 25 00:45:01 EDT 2012, john@jfloren.net wrote: >> We've got some budget left for hardware, so I'm looking for a server >> suitable for running Plan 9, preferably as good as I can get for about >> $3000-5000. Buying non-Thinkpad Plan 9 hardware is kind of a >> crapshoot, and this isn't just some $100 Atom system, so if any of you >> are running something along these lines, please let me know. I'd most >> like to see lots of cores and lots of RAM, I don't even want storage >> (we've got other methods for storage). > > hey, john, i've had incredible luck with intel servers from supermicro > for general beat-about servers. > > just as a quick suggestion, i'd look at this server here. > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/6017/SYS-6017R-WRF.cfm > > with 8-core socket-r cpus, you can have 32 cores and 128gb of memory > without stretching the budget too much. the intel i350 nics work fine, > but for something that hot, i'd get a myircom or intel 10gbe adapter. > > this was just whatever came up in 5 minutes. you might want to look > at this page here for more options > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Xeon_X9_E5.cfm?pg=SS > > acmemicro.com (fitting, no?) should have the full range of stuff. > > - erik Thanks for the tip; I just looked at acmemicro and spec'd out a decent-looking 16-core system with 64 GB of RAM for about $4800, so I'll probably end up doing something like that. john