[rescue] Sun 711

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Yup. x86. No choice. The software only runs under Windows.

Basically this is going to be a video playback machine. 2048x1556
uncompressed tiffs x 30fps. Steady. It CAN'T drop frames or it is useless.
The 'plan' so far is.....

Dual 1.6GHz Athlon MP's on a Tyan Tiger MPX (64/66)
2GB Ram
2xU160 RAID controllers
16-24 36GB 15k Cheetah's
Radeon 8500 (I have no idea why ATI)
24" Sony monitor

I am just trying to find something to put the drives in. I would like to get
a couple 711's, but I need to know if they will operate at U160 or not (I am
checking docs.sun.com now).

I was thinking FC-AL, but then I need to find an enclosure, cards that can
do 150MB/s (I have no clue about FC-AL). And ensure my boss that I can get
it all working.

shawn



-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Gregory Leblanc
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 5:38 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun 711


On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 15:17, Monty Walls wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2002 17:06:54 -0500
> "Shawn Wallbridge" <swallbridge at franticfilms.com> wrote:
>
> > Just wondering if the Sun 711 can take Ultra-160 SCSI drives and operate
at
> > U160 speeds.
> >
> > I need to figure out how to get 300MB/s (uncompressed 2K video)
sustained on
> > a machine. I am thinking two U160 PCI (64/66) RAID controllers with two
> > 711's filled with 36GB 15k rpm Cheetah's.
> >
>
> I'd opt for 2 PCI(64/66) Bus's first.
> then 2 FC-AL adapters per bus (or U160s).  Need to allow for Murphy...

I think you'd need 3 FC-AL adapters to get 300MB/sec.

What sort of a machine are you going to put this in?  You shouldn't
saturate a single 64/66 PCI bus, but there won't be a lot of space left
over for, say, networking, or anything else.  Two PCI busses would be
Better.  I think you'll want some pretty decent processors, and a
boatload of ram if you're going to do this with software striping.  What
platform are you thinking of using?  SPARC, SGI?  Not x86, we trust.
:-)
	Greg

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