[R-sig-hpc] Suggestions for dedicated server for simulations

[bart]

Hi

Considering storage and speed one option looking it in my mind is SSD 
disks. For intersections with large rasters on desktops I have positive 
experiences with that. I can imagine that for genome work where large 
datasets can't be read into memory it also works. I guess it is less 
relevant for the specific case here but it is worth considering in general.

Bart

On 09/30/2011 10:21 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Michael Hannon<jm_hannon at yahoo.com>  wrote:
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>> I generally agree with the analysis given so far in this thread,  but let
>> me point out:
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>>> ...and if data will not be backed up elsewhere, consider RAID mirroring
>> hard disks. ...
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>> If you accidentally delete all of last week's work on one mirrored drive,
>> it is immediately gone from the other drive.  Mirroring does guard against
>> hardware errors but not wetware errors.  I'd suggest backing up anything
>> that's of importance to you.
>>
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> To say it in R code:
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>    raid != backup
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> To be safe, you need both.
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> Raid has another advantage, which does not seem to be important for you:
> with the right RAID level, hdd access will be faster.
>
> Rainer
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>> -- Mike
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