On 16/10/11 23:53, James Sinnamon wrote:
My existing hardware configuration and/or the Linux distributions I have tried to install have got the better of me. See APPENDIX 1. For this reason and because I want a PC with sufficient grunt to be able to run a java application (which will run the order of 100-200 or more threads (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/pdpta/pdpta2004-3.html#Sinna...). It seems that a 64 bit processor will be needed as a 32 bit processor cannot address more than 4 Gig of memory (see http://developer.amd.com/Pages/1130200686.aspx http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/microarch...).
I couldn't find a way to read the paper you linked to at uni-trier.de. It appears to be your paper, if I'm not mistaken, so perhaps you can provide a link to the actual article for us here? Secondly, I note that the paper was published in 2004. If that is the case, then surely *any* modern hardware will suffice - I mean, even if it took a powerful system to run the software in 2004, then you should be able to manage with desktop-grade gear easily now. A high-end CPU in 2004 was a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4, which had a single core; now you can get four or six core CPUs that run at that speed -- yet actually get twice as much done per cycle thanks to also doubling the memory bus speed and assorted other advances. (I'm looking at the Intel Core i5 2500, and the AMD Phenom II 1100T, both worth about two hundred dollars)
I intend to go to a hardware dealer (possibly MSY in Cheltenham tomorrow) so i need advice as to what will be a hardware configuration that:
1. has sufficient power to run the multi-threaded Java application mentioned above; and 2. will mostly allow at least one Linux distribution to be installed and quickly without causing me anywhere the number of problems I have faced for at least the last two weeks (see APPENDIX 1).
I'm a bit confused actually - if you wrote the paper, and presumably the java app it describes, then why are you unfamiliar with its hardware requirements?
I would also be interested in what Linux Distribution others would recommend. I have had serious problems with Debian and Saboyan and have found Linux Mint and Ubuntu wanting (see APPENDIX 1). With the latter I two, I simply could not get the Apache server to log its rewriting of URLs with the Rewrite module.
I quite like Ubuntu Server Edition myself. Reading your appendix below, it seems like your problems stem from your unfamiliarity with Apache configuration, rather than the particular Linux distribution you are using. -Toby [appendix snipped]