Okay, this will be fun :) I'm putting together a research grant for some fairly heavy text crunching (categorizing thousands of documents using statistical methods). At the moment the grant is in the "reach for the sky" phase, meaning look for the best-possible technical solution. Eventually, of course, we will probably have to cut down.
But for now, I'd like advice on hardware, potentially costing as much as $25,000 for this project. I'm open to clustered solutions as well as single-machine solutions, although I don't want to spend much time keeping the cluster going. Things I've thought of include: - IBM IntelliStation Z line - Sun Enterprise 450 or 420R - SGI 2200 or something like that (don't know SGI's line well) - Building a standard Intel-based system (dual fast processors, 4G RAM, fast SCSI disks, etc.) So, what would you do? ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
