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This be the MySpace search page ranking system:

1) Dumb
2) Dumber
3) Dumbier
4) Dumbest
5) Stupid Beyond Words

it sure ain't perfect, but at least it's different! www.dumbfind.com

$1995 for the base v20z is the cheapest I have found on Sun with a moderate amount of digging, then add the second cpu for $445. Is there another model that is cheaper?

I am building a search engine and for my first big server purchase I will be spending about $60k. Right now I am vacillating between 40x Dell sc1425's with 2x2.8ghz Xeons(64bit), 1gb, and 2x160gb ($1557)or 30x Penguin Computing Altus 1300 with 2x244 Opterons, 1gb, and 2x120gb ($2035).

I am assuming you would lean toward the Penguin side, but since I/O tends to be a major bottleneck with search engines I am leaning towards the Dell's. Also I can get a decent lease through Dell. But I do LOVE Opterons, I have a few already and several Athlon 64's that I run my site off of (dumbfind.com). I don't have any of the 64 bit Xeon's, but I sent a simple custom benchmark app to a friend that has access to some and I was pretty impressed with the results. The 32bit Xeon's pale in comparison to my AMD chips, but comparing all of the results on all the various chips I have lead me to the conclusion that the 64bit Xeon chips running the 64bit IBM jvm (all my stuff is in Java) made up a ton of ground, and were faster than the opterons in some tests. But the benchmarks are not true representations of how my app will behave so I am still a bit skeptical.

So basically I am a scared and confused little boy about to dole out a good chunk of my initial investment. Any advice you could give would be AWESOME.

Also, do you think that an idiot can figure out how to kickstart all those servers via the network, or will I need a floppy or cd-rom drive in those machines?

thanks!

- also Chris

that search on dumbfind.com gives the right answer in the number 1 spot too! Does that make it better than Yahoo and MSN? I will settle for 2nd...

Why are Flamingos Pink?

against my own. I am in the process of developing a search engine as we speak and I am frequently comparing the results of mine versus all others. Google is still the best by a quite a decent margin, but there is definitely a lot of room for improvement. I will be releasing a new version of my engine in the next few weeks that will hopefully make searching a bit more intuitive for people out there that haven't designed search engines and don't have the benefit of knowing exactly how they work. Check it out at dumbfind.com. It is an entirely proprietary system written in Java on Linux. Please be gentle as it is still very beta.

please tell me you found the article, I have been looking for a decently priced solid state disk for years. What is so hard about having a battery backed up memory board you can put 16gb or more of cheap RAM on? Seems almost trivial. If I were google, I would buy a company just to make me hardware like that. But I am dumbfind, and thus it still doesn't make financial sense.

well they should be! the titans will fall! muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha -cough-

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