We are actually planning to buy a new barebone server and they are around 
E2500,-. With barely any memory. I will check later with sales, 16gig ram 
strips are around max 200 euros so below 10K should be sufficient?


> On 1 Nov 2017, at 07:47, Laura Morales <laure...@mail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It's a machine with 378 GiB of RAM and 64 threads running Scientific
>> Linux 7.2, that we use mainly for benchmarks.
>> 
>> Building the index was really all about memory because the CPUs have
>> actually a lower per-thread performance (2.30 GHz vs 3.5 GHz) compared
>> to those of my regular workstation, which was unable to build it.
> 
> 
> If your regular workstation was using more CPU, I guess it was because of 
> swapping. Thanks for the statistics, it means a "commodity" CPU could handle 
> this fine, the bottleneck is RAM. I wonder how expensive it is to buy a 
> machine like yours... it sounds like in the $30K-$50K range?
> 
> 
>> You're right. The limited query language of hdtSearch is closer to
>> grep than to SPARQL.
>> 
>> Thank you for pointing out Fuseki, I'll have a look at it.
> 
> 
> I think a SPARQL command-line tool could exist, but AFAICT it doesn't exist 
> (yet?). Anyway, I have already successfully setup Fuseki with a HDT backend, 
> although my HDT files are all small. Feel free to drop me an email if you 
> need any help setting up Fuseki.
> 
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