[Gmod-help] Updated hardware requirements Gmod servers

[Hilmar Lapp]

Hi Michael - 

Your query doesn't sound inappropriate to me for the GMOD-schema list. If you don't get any response there, you might also try the GBrowse list, and/or the GMOD-devel list. And did you check out the Computer section on the Computing Requirements page on the GMOD wiki (http://gmod.org/wiki/Computing_Requirements#Computer)?

	-hilmar

On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:42 AM, Michael Dondrup wrote:

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