SCROaT Description

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[16:12:02] <logan> james: I'm trying to remember the elements that composed a 'SCROTE"
[16:12:10] <logan> james: storage, CPU, RAM...
[16:17:43] <james> Storage, CPU, & RAM Overhead (these things are assigned as a constant and thus are an "overhead") and Transfer
[16:17:46] <james> SCROaT
[16:18:39] <james> Transfer can vary, but must be accounted for as many vendors flat rate you for SCRO, but make you pay for T
[16:19:04] <james> linode just bundles transfer in, EC2 bills per byte
[16:19:51] <james> so a 10GB Disk, 1/4th a procesor, 512 GB of RAM, and 100GB of xfer is one "SCROaT"
[16:20:31] <james> if something needs more than that, say 20GB of disk, you just assign it 2 SCROaTs, rather than min-max all the things.
[16:20:35] <aziz> james: the last of the Merrylites just fell
[16:20:43] <aziz> Tom Gwydir is done.
[16:21:00] <james> so it would get 20GB 1/2 1024MB, and 200GB xfer
[16:21:10] <james> ram is MB, not GB as I originally put
[16:21:19] <aziz> jamison: Andy strikes again - the only VP with a pair.
[16:21:33] <jamison> ! excellent
[16:21:34] <james> Clusters can be then measured in kiloSCROaTs
[16:21:47] <james> aziz: 6 years too late for it to do any good
[16:22:02] <aziz> never say never
[16:22:07] <james> aziz: is devey still there?
[16:22:15] <aziz> unfortunately
[16:22:19] james loses interest in this conversation
[16:22:31] <james> logan: you copy all that?
[16:22:31] <aziz> ditto for a lot of chaff
[16:25:45] <jamison> aziz: the part that makes me giggle a bit is that chris brought andy in specifically.
[16:28:26] <logan> james: hell ya. perfect!
[16:28:39] <logan> I forgot the full acronym, and im writing it up formally now
[16:28:53] <logan> I intend to pitch the 'SCROaT' tomorrow
[16:29:41] <jamison> james: I was wondering where you got a VPS with 512GB of RAM.
[16:29:44] <jamison> I'd ask for a referral.
[16:30:10] <aziz> sweet jebus
[16:31:35] <james> jamison: from yermom
[16:31:39] <james> :)
[16:31:55] <james> GigaButt
[16:31:57] <jamison> naturally. she would have big GBs.
[16:33:17] <james> logan: the idea is to make customizations of hosts "expensive"
[16:33:28] <james> all the same, or pay for it.
[16:33:45] <james> because if shit's not all the same, you're gonna pay for it
[16:34:02] <james> amazon knows this, which is why they don't offer all the combinations possible
[16:34:24] <brandon> logan asks about the SCROaT like once a month. i think he needs to just man up and get a SCROaT tattoo so he'll never forget.
[16:34:28] <james> it also allows you to capacity plan *very* accurately
[16:35:14] <james> This cluster has 0.5 kiloSCROaTs, we've used 0.25 kiloSCROaTs. [DONE]
[16:35:19] <brandon> you can like store a bunch of extra computing power in a SCRoAT and just bust it out when needed
[16:35:46] <james> also, no clusters with a teraSCROaT capacity should be built, like ever.
[16:35:53] <james> because of *ouch*
[16:36:06] <cwage> i gotcher terascroat
[16:36:20] <james> pedascroat is ok