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What in your opinion counts as modern mid-range hardware?
by jl6 12y ago
What in your opinion counts as modern mid-range hardware?
- jandrewrogers 12y agoThe physical servers used in clusters I buy today run about $4k per server without storage. Outside of the dual 10 GbE interfaces, they are like most other budget servers. Storage costs per node vary depending on the size, type, and mix of disks. Driving the disk I/O at 10 GbE can be trivial with a good I/O scheduler design, so ironically the details of the storage device are almost irrelevant for many workloads. Cheap SSDs are the default target but cheap spinning disk works surprisingly well for many workloads. Various AWS nodes are also used in clusters quite a bit (though we use ephemeral disks rather than EBS). Nothing exotic.