----- Forwarded message from Bill Broadley <bill at cse.ucdavis.edu> ----- From: Bill Broadley <bill at cse.ucdavis.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:30:39 -0800 To: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [Bioclusters] servers for bio web services setup (fwd from michab at dcs.gla.ac.uk) User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i IMO you should plan on several front ends for the network facing servers and a backend that runs a database (but is not network visible). Something like 3 v20z dual opterons for the front ends, and someones quad opteron as a backend. I'd plan on a fair amount of disk even if you are only storing metadata. Either a chassis that can take 12-16 drives or a fiber connected external disk array. I'm somewhat affiliated with a similar project setting up a similar web/grid portal for the new genomics building/project here at UCD. Definitely buy everything keeping in mind it will likely keep growing over the next few years. On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:31:56PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Micha Bayer <michab at dcs.gla.ac.uk> ----- > > From: Micha Bayer <michab at dcs.gla.ac.uk> > Date: 13 Jan 2005 09:48:52 +0000 > To: "bioclusters at bioinformatics.org" <bioclusters at bioinformatics.org> > Subject: [Bioclusters] servers for bio web services setup > Organization: > X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) > Reply-To: "Clustering, compute farming & distributed computing in life science informatics" <bioclusters at bioinformatics.org> > > Hi all, > > I have been asked for advice on hardware by my boss, but I am slightly > out of my depth here because I really do software. > > He wants to set up a bio facility which provides web/grid services > (probably Axis or GT3/4) to a substantial user community (UK-wide but > with access control, so probably in the region of hundreds or perhaps > thousands of potential users). Services will include the usual things > things like BLAST, ClustalW, protein structure analysis etc. -- probably > a small subset of what EBI offers. > > The computational back end is likely to be our UK National Grid or > similar, but either way he is only providing the server that hosts the > middleware and metascheduler. He is wondering what hardware setup setup > is best for this. We are probably looking at running the web/grid > services out of Tomcat. > > Would a single high-spec machine be sufficient for this kind of thing? > Or would one have several servers doing the same thing in parallel? > In which case, what spec should they have and how would they be > coordinated? > > many thanks > > Micha > -- > -------------------------------------------------- > Dr Micha M Bayer > Grid Developer, BRIDGES Project > National e-Science Centre, Glasgow Hub > 246c Kelvin Building > University of Glasgow > Glasgow G12 8QQ > Scotland, UK > Email: michab at dcs.gla.ac.uk > Project home page: http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bridges/ > Personal Homepage: http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~michab/ > Tel.: +44 (0)141 330 2958 > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Bill Broadley Computational Science and Engineering UC Davis ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioclusters/attachments/20050114/cdae8338/attachment.bin