Runs with Scissors wrote:
> "Runs with Scissors" <tgb_at_REMOVEsoftitect.com> wrote in message
> news:%0Udd.19460$jo2.13612_at_twister.socal.rr.com...
>
>>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.
What analytic engine? And why do you need it at all? What are you
thinking you need to do that can't be done in the RDBMS?
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Received on Fri Oct 22 2004 - 00:06:02 CDT
