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The only thing i wanted to know is on what a machine it runs. > It runs on a Linux server with dual 20 core processors, 786GB of memory and 80+TB of NetApp NFS

by dobin 3y ago

The only thing i wanted to know is on what a machine it runs. > It runs on a Linux server with dual 20 core processors, 786GB of memory and 80+TB of NetApp NFS storage. And they deliver.

chx 3y ago
I faintly remember when around the turn of the century the Irish equivalent, HEANET put in an Intel Itanic server for a similar purpose (or was it two?). I hope someone will correct me if I remember wrong but it had an absurd amount of memory, like 32GB. ALthough it seems I remember wrong https://hyse.org/pdf/scaling-apache-handout.pdf https://hyse.org/pdf/scaling-apache-handout.pdf > a Dell 2650, with 2 2.4 Ghz Xeon processors, 12Gb of memory but still, there was Merced there, it's just been so long ...
app4soft 3y ago
And software it used is here:[0] [0] https://www.funet.fi/pub/local/src/ https://www.funet.fi/pub/local/src/
p1mrx 3y ago
I wonder if 786 GB is a typo, because 256 * 3 = 768.
- warrenm 3y ago
  why would you think 768G is a typo? 6x 128G = 768G As is 12x 64G Seems in line with servers I see routinely
- geraldhh 3y ago
  more than likely
  - tvararu 3y ago
    I'd wager the people that are from the 386/486 era get this wrong a lot
jks 3y ago
The earliest description about the hardware I can find on archive.org is: > The main server is a Sun4/630MP-41 with (14-Feb-94) over 20GB GB archive disk space https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014909/http://nic.funet.fi/FUNET/ftp/hw.html https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014909/http://nic.funet....