Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation

[Tom Chance]

> > Indeed we can.
> > 
> > As for processing power, unless we use a single
> PII
> > 450 to do the serving, I'm not sure processing
> power
> > is going to be much of a problem. Especially if we
> use
> > Perl, because then we can use a small bank of
> > interpreters to do the number crunching, and a
> main
> > computer to act as the "gateway", to hold the info
> > etc.
> 
> I think we should avoid unnecessary cost. Why need
> 100 
> computers when we could do the same with a handfull
> ?

The "bank of perl machines" would be about 10 crap old
machines like P90s, you buy them for about £20 each
down at the auctions. We have a beowulf running atm at
school, we're trying to convince them to gibe it to us
when we leave so we can do some hosting, seeing as we
got all the machines and set it up ourselves. Its
cost-effective to have a bank of them. Especially when
you want to upgrade your power - just add a new
machine, no need for a new motherboard or expensive
RAM etc.
> 
> > We shouldn't offload our problems onto the users,
> > we should solve them all ourselves.
> 
> Go and tell address@hidden that :-)

That's a completely different kettle of fish! That's
like saying football players train every day
intensively, so darts players should also run round
fields all the time! We're serving people, not asking
them to help us out, or am I mistaken?

Tom Chance

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