Janke

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   by Janke 17y ago

   SETI @ Home? :) The customer hardware is IBM xSeries (3950's), with modular, stackable components, much like a stack of switches. It could be broken up into smaller servers and re-used on other projects.
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   by Janke 17y ago

   eLearning (On line Courseware) for a population of a quarter million students, about half of which use the system daily. Registration is as large of a system, but with higher peak loads at semester start, as you've indicated.
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   by Janke 17y ago

   At the time, IBM, Unisys and Bull were about the only vendors with SQL 2000 capable servers with > 8 CPU's. (And Itanium, of course.) The customer purchased IBM x460's, 16 CPU's, 64GB RAM = $225k each in 2005, right after they came out