Based on the amount of effort we had to put in, I have to agree that you're
going to have to need a _lot_ of hardware for the software effort to pay off.

                                        -Kip

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> 
> >PS.  It's crossed my mind that the staff time involved in making this
> >work could quickly exceed the cost of buying equivalent (maybe even
> >better) "normal" hardware.  :-)
> 
> s/could/will/
> 
> If I were you I'd look at the 1U dual Xeon servers from SuperMicro.
> Onboard Gigabit Ethernet, DDR SDRAM, 4 internal 3.5" drive bays plus
> slimline CDROM and floppy, 64bit/133Mhz PCI-X slots.  They're /nice/.
> You can find benchmarks on them here:
> 
> http://www.vampire.vanderbilt.edu/benchmarks.php
> 
> Brandon D. Valentine
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