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09/11/2006, 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Speaker:
Steve St.Peter, Director of Programming and Platforms, American Express.
The time has come when a $2,000,000 SMP Unix server can be replaced by a $200,000 grid of even greater performance, reliability, and fault tolerance. We'll discuss the considerations made in selecting the key grid components: grid node hardware, network infrastructure, and storage strategy. These must be optimized for the type of workload the grid will support.
We'll look at detailed performance metrics of our pilot grid which executes single-threaded and massively parallel SAS workloads using SAS Grid Manager software on Linux. We compared numerous CPU, disk, and network configurations to optimize price versus performance. We'll discuss details down to the MB/s, and how you can choose the right hardware for your processing needs, given your budget.
Finally, we'll discuss the business challenges of implementing a grid, including convincing your leadership of a grid's value, working with the IT department, and software licensing.
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