[Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

[Andra DuPont]

On Feb 5, 2011, at 5:01 AM, Tom Parker wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:18 -0500, Andra DuPont wrote:
>> I have deployed two servers using netbooks. One is an Acer Aspire One 532h and
>> the other is an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB. Both are using the Atom 450 processor at
>> ~1.67 Ghz with 1 GB ram. I put 500 GB hard drives in each, which added $75.
>> They cost about $325 after hard drive upgrade. They consume about 10W. They of
>> course do have fans, and it will be some time before I can give you a reliability report.
>> They are being used in a dry (almost desert like) area of Kenya, and they are in a mud
>> wall building with a metal roof that stays fairly warm ~90 F. So far, so good. This is not
>> "recommended" hardware per se, but it is cost effective and low power.
> 
> How many students are these servers supporting? There is actually quite
> difference between atom cpus, the I have a D510 server and an N280
> laptop and the D510 is significantly faster for video encoding. I
> haven't looked at integer/logic type operations.
> 
There are 100 laptops at this location. I have been there when 30 were on at once,
and all was good. That said, the Atom 450 is not a dual core processor. As I gain
experience with these servers I will send some updates on the performance.