Beauty vs Beast

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Beauty vs Beast

Post by Brennor » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:50 pm

For those of you who were interested in seeing what Beauty looks like, here is a picture of the current setup in the basement.

The bottom left server is what the site is currently running on (AKA Beast). This is a Compaq Proliant 7000.
  • 4x PIII 500MHz processors
  • 1.75GB ECC 60ns EDO RAM (ie: old stuff, not DDR)
  • 218GB U160 7.2krpm RAID5 storage (split into multiple partitions)
The bottom right server is what was originally going to be called Beauty before the new Beauty arrived.

The server on top of the bottom two is the new server (AKA Beauty). This is an HP Proliant DL385 (generation 1).
  • 2x Opteron 275 processors (Dual-core 2.2GHz)
  • 4GB ECC PC2-5300 DDR2 RAM
  • 333GB U320 15krpm RAID5 storage (split into multiple partitions)
The box at the top right of the picture is an external disk array for Beauty. This is an HP MSA30.
  • Adds 868GB U320 10krpm RAID5 storage to Beauty
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Beauty will be roughly an order of magnitude faster than Beast currently is. Each processor in Beauty is roughly 5 times faster than each processor in Beast. Memory is roughly 8 times faster. The disk subsystem built into Beauty is roughly 4 times faster than Beast and the external disk subsystem is roughly 2 times faster than Beast.
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