<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Will Metcalf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.metcalf@gmail.com">william.metcalf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> We are about to put in cap-ex request for 4 new boxes for monitoring stations -- we will be testing out suricata and will get at least one with a GPU. At the moment we are looking at quad core boxes (DELL or IBM 1U) with at least 4GB memory. > We intend to run argus and and IDS ;) ( boxes will run some flavour of linux..)<br>
If you can afford it, get Xeon 55xx series chips. Nehalem is freaking<br>
sweet. This isn't your p4 era hyper-threading you can almost treat<br>
the HT like another core.<br>
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> Anything we should be aware of (like how much memory on GPU ?).<br>
Can't help you there, Anoop? GNORT guy's? any advice on the GPU stuff?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>i think gpus come with 2GB now. 1GB should be good enough though. It would be nice to go for a dual GPU graphics card, since we'll be looking at supporting load balancing on multi-cuda-devices at some point in the future. I think something like a gtx 295. You can look at a couple of other such versions in the market.<br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Regards,<br>Anoop Saldanha<br><br>