[Gmod-help] Updated hardware requirements Gmod servers

[Scott Cain]

I just wonder if people don't really think about such things these
days; for most applications (that is, things that might require a
cluster), most any computer you buy would be sufficient most of the
time.  The advice I've been give for several years now is get the most
RAM you can afford, and then buy a big hard disk (or maybe two, and
set them up in a RAID).

Scott


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at nescent.org> wrote:
> 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)?
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>        -hilmar
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> On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:42 AM, Michael Dondrup wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Are there any (updated) hardware specifications or recommendations for a GMOD system based on
>> GBrowse and CHADO?
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>> 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.
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>> 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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