Justification for hardware for the Drug Interaction Database.
Justification for a Dual Pentium II 450.- Thriveonline has been offered the use of a drug interaction database for free for at least a year as long as we provide a computer to run it on.
- We're literally getting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free data, software and support.
- Thriveonline does not currently have a machine that we could use for this purpose.
- The vendor of the drug interaction database recommended the configuration we're proposing.
- Dual 300 MHz Processor
- 512 Megs of RAM (expandable to at least a gig.)
- A1000 disk array to hold all the hard drives.
- (3) 3+ GB UltraFast SCSI Hard Drives.
- 2 NIC Cards 10/100
- 24x CDROM
- FLoPPy
- Single Powersupply
- APC 1000XL UPS
- Keyboard
- SVGA ColorMonitor
- 56k Modem
- Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4
- MsSql 6.5 Service Pack 5a
- Netscape Enterprise Web Server 3.6
- Jrun
- PCAnywhere 8.0
- Weblogic MS-SQL JDBC driver (~$1500, used with Jrun,
- When MS-SQL is used behind a web application, an Internet connector license is required. We must purchase one per processor. Each processor runs ~$2400. (www.provantage.com )
Final Location: Oxygen Colo Center in New York. (address needed).
Finances:
The money for the Drug Interaction computer is available from the Operating Expenses budget of the Thriveonline Production Department.
ADDED NOTES What is the purpose of the 3 different drives and is 3 gigs each enough?
We spread the database out in some cases on the different drives to even the load. The total drive space should be around 8 to 10 Gigs. If you want to use just two drives I'm fine with that.
Also, is the speed of the drive critical here or is this application loaded into memory so that disk speed isn't so critical?
If the machine isn't being hit really hard than everything can be handled by the memory, but if not, then we need to rely on the speed of the drives. Since the activity on this box is unknown I would be safe versus sorry
