[Beowulf] [Bioclusters] servers for bio web services setup (fwd from michab@dcs.gla.ac.uk) (fwd from bill@cse.ucdavis.edu)

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Bill Broadley <bill at cse.ucdavis.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:30:39 -0800
To: Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [Bioclusters] servers for bio web services setup (fwd from michab at dcs.gla.ac.uk)
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IMO you should plan on several front ends for the network facing servers
and a backend that runs a database (but is not network visible).

Something like 3 v20z dual opterons for the front ends, and someones
quad opteron as a backend.  I'd plan on a fair amount of disk even if
you are only storing metadata.  Either a chassis that can take 12-16
drives or a fiber connected external disk array.

I'm somewhat affiliated with a similar project setting up a similar
web/grid portal for the new genomics building/project here at UCD.

Definitely buy everything keeping in mind it will likely keep growing
over the next few years.


On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:31:56PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
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> From: Micha Bayer <michab at dcs.gla.ac.uk>
> Date: 13 Jan 2005 09:48:52 +0000
> To: "bioclusters at bioinformatics.org" <bioclusters at bioinformatics.org>
> Subject: [Bioclusters] servers for bio web services setup
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> Hi all,
> 
> I have been asked for advice on hardware by my boss, but I am slightly
> out of my depth here because I really do software.
> 
> He wants to set up a bio facility which provides web/grid services
> (probably Axis or GT3/4) to a substantial user community (UK-wide but
> with access control, so probably in the region of hundreds or perhaps
> thousands of potential users). Services will include the usual things
> things like BLAST, ClustalW, protein structure analysis etc. -- probably
> a small subset of what EBI offers.
> 
> The computational back end is likely to be our UK National Grid or
> similar, but either way he is only providing the server that hosts the
> middleware and metascheduler. He is wondering what hardware setup setup
> is best for this. We are probably looking at running the web/grid
> services out of Tomcat.
> 
> Would a single high-spec machine be sufficient for this kind of thing? 
> Or would one have several servers doing the same thing in parallel? 
> In which case, what spec should they have and how would they be
> coordinated?
> 
> many thanks
> 
> Micha
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