{"id":164,"date":"2006-08-29T19:23:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T19:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/29\/rio-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:00:48","slug":"rio-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/rio-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the additional resource requirement I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, I ended up deciding it was time to upgrade the server here (Rio) with some additional CPU hardware.  When building Rio late last year, I wanted to make sure the hardware was fairly upgradable.  The easy choice at the time was to go with Athlon 64 processors, since I could start with a pretty basic 2Ghz single core chip, and have the option to upgrade to a dual-core CPU later on.  Well, that time is now, and today the new processor arrived.  I ended up purchasing an Athlon 64 X2 4600+ processor, which boils down to a 2.4Ghz dual core CPU.  Fortunately, with AMD&#8217;s price drop just a couple of months ago, I didn&#8217;t pay much more for this processor than I did for the original.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I was a bit surprised with was the difference between the new and old heat-sinks.  I wasn&#8217;t expecting much of a difference between retail CPUs in the same processor line-up, but the new one is of a much higher quality.  Here&#8217;s a picture&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/static_links\/x2_heatsink.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So now I have to do some real-world benchmarking to find out just how much faster this CPU will go.  I suspect the database importing times will improve dramatically, and the server will be much more usable while the update is taking place with the additional core.  I&#8217;ll probably post again here with some benchmarks when I&#8217;ve had a chance to try things out.<\/p>\n<p>With most of the forecast back-end work complete, I&#8217;m hoping to release a public beta sometime later this week or maybe next week.  I just need to finish tweaking performance for the new CPU and smooth out some database replication issues.  It sure will be a relief to have this new forecast system online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the additional resource requirement I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, I ended up deciding it was time to upgrade the server here (Rio) with some additional CPU hardware. When building Rio late last year, I wanted to make sure the hardware was fairly upgradable. The easy choice at the time was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaucho-software","category-seasonality","category-sys-admin","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}