New 'puter

[richdrich]

Hello lazyweb!

I'm going to tack together a new computer shortly, mostly to run a Linux/Ruby/Rails/PostgreSQL stack as a test/staging server.

I've got an MSI965M motherboard (thank you Thomas!) and am thinking of adding the following:
- 2 x Transcend JetRAM JM800QLU-2G, 1x2GB, DDR2-800, PC2-6400, CL5, DIMM
- 1 x Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EARS

Comments

[richdrich]

I'm going to be unpacking Planet.osm, throwing it in a database and generating tile files from it. So there'll be a DB in the tens of gigabytes at least.

And given I've not had a disk fail in a long time, mirrored would seem like a good idea.

[ferrouswheel]

It seems like the tiles would be the bulk of that data, which wouldn't be worthwhile storing in a SQL DB. Of course, you might mean the vectors etc are tens of gigabytes themselves... in which case, ignore me.

[richdrich]

Vectors and tag text.

The source XML file is 150G and compresses to 7G. The database is an intermediate that lets me filter it and create binary "vector tiles" that get uploaded to the mobile device. The large scale maps get drawn locally from those. I'll probably create raster tiles for large scale use with an existing OSM tool (which will probably still use PostgreSQL).

[richdrich]

I'm actually wondering on the state of that project to use GPUs for high performance computing..

[ferrouswheel]

There are a few of those, but CUDA is Nvidia's solution and OpenCL is the cross platform one (although I'd personally go direct to the hardware and use a vendor's solution).

[ferrouswheel]

I have a 24" Samsung syncmaster 2443BW monitor for sale for $275 if you want it and haven't bought the monitor yet. Less than a year old, VGA and DVI input.

[richdrich]

Are you GST registered?

[ferrouswheel]

Yep