[125317] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier class email security recommendation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Apr 12 11:47:20 2010
In-Reply-To: <4BC33907.4060605@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:17:08 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: todd glassey <tglassey@earthlink.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, todd glassey <tglassey@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 4/12/2010 7:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>> The man did say "carrier class" .. not "small webhost for four
>> families and dog".
>
> yes he did Suresh ... meaning that something larger and more secure than
> the off-the-shelf copy of Linux is needed. Funny the NSA and many others
> would disagree with you.
I know of (and have been the postmaster for) multiple million user
installations that run happily on linux + postfix (and sendmail,
qmail..).
None that run on one server running webmin, even a 3U server.
> or layered as stages within a new system design based on GPU's which
> allow for the specific assignment of threads of control to specific
> processes. Imaging a cloud type environment running in a single GPU with
> the abililty to properly map threads to GPU threads.
You don't have "single" of anything at all for large and well scaled
environments.
> OK our server is 3U but that was because I wanted bigger fans inside
> it... The 1U single TESLA based email GW is exactly what you describe -
> a 512 thread CUDA based GPU with serious capabilities therein.
So how many users do you run on that one 3U box? 100K? 300K? A
couple of million? :)
The man said carrier class. And when you talk that you dont just talk
features, you talk operations on a rather larger scale than what
you're describing.
--srs
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
