"Runs with Scissors" <tgb_at_REMOVEsoftitect.com> wrote in message
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>I am currently working on a project for a Business Performance Management
>application. The initial goal of the project is to develop a demonstrable
>application that our sales force can show to potential clients. The
>targeted clients will be higher echelon retailers (read as very large data
>sets). One requirement of the project is to deploy, onto a single laptop,
>the application server/web server, analytic engine, and database -
>including a realistic data set (i.e. a few/several gigabytes of data) in
>order to provide realistic demonstrations. Note that in this case, several
>gigabytes of data represent a very small sample of the real-world product
>solution, say 1-5%. The primary reason for the single box deployment is to
>allow an anytime/anyplace demonstration. No network access required. They
>will not be demonstrating multi-users capabilities.
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> Basically, They (aka Management) want a magical solution.
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> The deployment will be Oracle 9i or 10g (Enterprise Edition), Web Sphere
> 5.0.2, and an analytic engine I'm not free to specify at this time. The
> BPM application will include several star-schema data marts covering
> things like sales, inventory, planned sales, purchases, planned inventory,
> etc. The application must also emulate a real-time data feed, so the
> database will be a "general" database doing both transaction processing
> and data warehousing functions.
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> I'm assuming that we will be able to get top-of-the-line laptops running
> some flavor of Linux (probably Red Hat), but still, a single CPU and
> single drive smells like a performance disaster to me, not to mention a
> 2gig memory limit. I'm looking for alternatives in the deployment model.
> One thing that comes to mind is a portable USB RAID solution with 5 or
> more drives in a RAID0 or RAID5 configuration. Another might be a
> three-laptop deployment where each laptop supports a specific server, or,
> possibly a combination of the two.
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> Does anyone have similar experiences they would care to share?
> Alternative ideas on how to get enterprise performance out of a single
> CPU? Know any good magic spells, or rules-of-thumb to quantify the
> performance expected in a real-world deployment?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Tom
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I just found out that the analytic engine won't run on Linux, so it will
have to be a Win 2K Server.
Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 14:52:17 CDT
