[Gmod-help] Updated hardware requirements Gmod servers

[Michael Dondrup]

I resend this email to the help-desk because I am not sure to which list best to send it,
I have sent this to gmod-schema, but I guess that is not the right list. I apologize if 
that was not the way to go.


Dear all,


In my project I am responsible for establishing
a model-organism database with a genome browser  (e.g. Gbrowse2) and likely a CHADO
database using Postgres on Linux server as a back-end. We are still in the process of 
specifying the system and features (see [1]) so requirements can change.

Are there any (updated) hardware specifications or recommendations for a GMOD system based on 
GBrowse and CHADO?

I am aware of  examples [2,3]. Is there a more recent overview of hardware specs and what are people actually using?

Key data: the organism has about 500 Mbase genome-size, which is in about 100 scaffolds atm,
gene-predictions will be available soon. 3 to 4 similar genomes will be made available in the system. 
There are about 30 project users who will also annotate, but I have no idea what is going to happen when the site will 
go public on the net.

We will need web-servers, database-servers, and storage.
The idea I picked up is to divide the system into two identical stacks, 
one for the master curation database, and one for the public version which is a read-only dump of the master DB.
I will start with a small test-stack first and a handful of test-users to get an impression for how the system scales.

I know that my question is quite hard to answer, but we need to acquire server hardware pretty soon.
Any suggestions will help. 

Thank you very much
Michael

[1]: http://biostar.stackexchange.com/questions/17099/what-is-your-experience-with-gmod-tools-or-alternatives
[2]: http://flybase.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=112
[3]: http://wiki.wormbase.org/index.php/WormBase_Infrastructure


Michael Dondrup
Post-doctoral researcher
The Sea Lice Research Centre
University of Bergen
Thormøhlensgate 55, N-5008 Bergen, 
Norway