Finn Advice
Hi,
Here are the comments and suggestions from Sam as per our meeting at the
APS Conference in Long Beach CA.
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Stability. This is an issue provided that not all platforms seem to
be equally stable when running LINUX.
Specially the combination of motherboard + BIOS should be considered.
The only way to address this is experimentally (or gathering info from
other users -my comment-).
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A thorough conversation with Kent Blackburn and A. Lazzarini should
take place.
issues: it seems that the max optimization that will be required is O2
and no more than that. i.e. the system that we want should top at that
level of optimization.
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some comments regarding the queen:
the queen should not be just another node. It should be capable of some
improvements:
i.e. 100 Gb of HD (5 HD, not necessarily an array), also more RAM (2
MB).
Also we may want it to have a dual port connection (2 eth.)
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we may also want to have a data conditioning unit. LDAS is evolving,
i.e. most processing would require a 4 processor box, 1Gb RAM, 2 MB
cache p/proc (!)
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we need to find out , also talking to Kent and ALbert if we need 256K
or 512K for RAM.
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he thinks definitely that starting with a prototype first (i.e. test
stability, heating, etc...) before purchasing everything is a good idea.
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dusting and filtering (similar to comments by Bruce: be sure that we
plan for dusting and we don't have to go evry other day to remove dust
from the components...)
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switching (this is my own question, now). Are we sure our option is
optimal?
regards,
mario