Example of high-speed storage PC for crustal deformation data analysis (budget 100 million)

■ This is an article posted on June 2018, 1, so the content of the information may be out of date.

This is an example of a proposal made by inquiring about a machine for routine processing of crustal movement data analysis and plate creation. CPU / memory performance is not required, but since many small files are created, IO (input / output) is a high-speed specification, and the usable capacity should be 6TB or more, and the capacity should be as large as possible. I received a request.

In this configuration, RAID6 is used as the storage for data, assuming the performance of data and the single storage capacity (0TB or more). In addition, by using a RAID card, not only the processing is separated from the CPU, but it is also assumed that the throughput will be improved by buffering small IO in the cache on the card side.

【Main Specifications】

CPU Core i5 8400 (2.80GHz 6 cores)
memory 32GB
storage System: SSD 250GB
Data: SSD 1.9TBx5 (RAID0)
RAID MegaRAID (hardware RAID card)
network Gigabit LAN
Housing + power supply Middle tower case + 650W
OS Fedora 27