I am putting together a heavy duty database server that will serve to a group of ~20 web servers, each supporting hundreds of thousands of users a day and tons of SQL transactions. Fedora environment.
I'm looking to identify the absolute fastest and most durable CPU available in the marketplace. Our co. has a great budget for this so the primary concern is on finding the absolute best performance specs money can buy. We are being shown a number of options by one vendor (Rackable Systems), who is suggesting high end Xeon processor with woodbridge MB..however I don't know if these processors have heating issues at the higher speeds or are realistic to take such heavy abuse as this DB server will be getting on a 24/7 basis.
Because I haven't done this sort of thing in a number of years, I'm not up to date on the latest and greatest in the market and I'm hoping to save some research time through any input I can get here on the board. Thanks in advance for any replies!
I'm looking to identify the absolute fastest and most durable CPU available in the marketplace. Our co. has a great budget for this so the primary concern is on finding the absolute best performance specs money can buy. We are being shown a number of options by one vendor (Rackable Systems), who is suggesting high end Xeon processor with woodbridge MB..however I don't know if these processors have heating issues at the higher speeds or are realistic to take such heavy abuse as this DB server will be getting on a 24/7 basis.
Because I haven't done this sort of thing in a number of years, I'm not up to date on the latest and greatest in the market and I'm hoping to save some research time through any input I can get here on the board. Thanks in advance for any replies!