<div dir="ltr">Thanks for sharing :) this gives me a few ideas.<div>R</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Jeff Kelley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:opensim@pescadoo.net" target="_blank">opensim@pescadoo.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">That was 6 months ago and I was in search of a host for a small grid. It should be low-cost, and I should have full access to the server and the database through ssh.<br>
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After a test on a dedicated server, I settled the price tag for a hosted machine should be around 30¤/month. [Prices have changed since I have made my decision. I can now have a i3 8G for 15¤/month, which is exactly the configuration I'm running]<br>
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But there was a special offer at my favorite hardware supplier I could not resist : A 128¤, low-size, low-power Core i3 "Next Unit Computing". This is a barebone. You have to add 8Gb RAM (65¤) and a 60Gb SSD (54¤).<br>
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<a href="http://techreport.com/review/23888/review-intel-next-unit-of-computing" target="_blank">http://techreport.com/review/<u></u>23888/review-intel-next-unit-<u></u>of-computing</a><br>
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I do not recommend this model specifically. This is not a buying guide. There is a large choice of mini-PC at Shuttle, Gigabyte, Zotac, Acer... from Celeron to i7. Graphic power is a no-issue since the machine will run screenless.<br>
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Of course, if you sit it on a DSL like I do, bandwith is scarce. Get crappy hardware or get crappy network, so is the deal when budget is low.<br>
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The NUC arrives in a music box. Literally. It plays the Intel logo when you open it. So kitsch! My OS pick was CentOS 64. I chose the minimal install CD to spare my SSD. Some yum later, it was compiling gdi+ and MONO (maybe there is a gdi+ repo somewhere, anyway that's a short build. MONO is a hefty one).<br>
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wget the last opensim tarball, install and configure. Fast and smooth. The grid is running 10 regions in 6 simulators (one simulator for the HG login region, one for the sandbox, five simulators with two regions each).<br>
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<a href="http://www.pescadoo.net/tmp/grid_monitoring_panel.png" target="_blank">http://www.pescadoo.net/tmp/<u></u>grid_monitoring_panel.png</a><br>
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Four avatars can log with no noticeable lag. There usually are two builders, a scripter, one friend or two chatting around. The machine consumes only 13W. These are actual, measured watts. Processor load less than 5% each core. Used RAM 6.3Gb. MySQL large-pages enabled. innodb_buffer_pool_size bumped to 256MMb. NEVER stick to the 8Mb default!<br>
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Everything is done through HG. All objects and object's content are set to group and shared with a SQL script so nobody gets stuck with uneditable objects. The team is advised to use HG1.0 XInventoryService when possible, to get full acces to their inventories. Automatic OAR every 10 hours and nightly SQL dump. NFS share to host the big files. Finally, there is voice since it speeds up things so much.<br>
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Why stop here?<br>
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I usually am reluctant to try oar's because they pollute the database. Remember, this is a low-cost project and I have only 60Gb of disk. Wouldn't that be nice if we had a trashable standalone just for that? Load anything you like, then DROP DATABASE when finished. Here we go. Duplicate the bin folder, configure, create a database and voila. The Mini-PC is now running a total of 19 regions.<br>
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All this in a 4" x 4" x 2" box.<br>
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-- Jeff<br>
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