ronj@datacom.ee.ubc.ca (Ron Jeffery) (12/17/88)
We want to buy a compute/file-server for our lab. Currently we have two Sun 3/50's and a third one on order, all connected with ethernet to other computers in our building and on the campus. Our applications include computer simulation of communications systems. This involves running programs which take days to complete on a Sun 3/50. One system that we are considering is the Sun 4/110 which sun is currently offered to our university at considerable discounts (does this mean that they have something new to replace it?). I would like advice on high MIPS/buck (and FLOPS/buck) systems costing less than $50,000CDN (say $35,000US) for a complete configuration (MIPS, Appolo, HP?). Thanks in advance. -- Ron Jeffery | Internet: ronj@datacom.ee.ubc.ca Communications Research Lab | UUCP: ubc-cs!ubc-datacom!ronj Electrical Engineering, UBC | Phone: (604) 228-4985
pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) (12/19/88)
In article <289@coho.UUCP>, ronj@datacom.ee.ubc.ca (Ron Jeffery) writes: > > We want to buy a compute/file-server for our lab...... One system > that we are considering is the Sun 4/110 which sun is currently offered > to our university at considerable discounts ...I would like advice on high > MIPS/buck (and FLOPS/buck) systems costing less than $50,000CDN (say > $35,000US) for a complete configuration (MIPS, Appolo, HP?). Thanks in > advance. > We matched a Sun 4/260 vs. a MIPS/120-5. It was a NC (No Contest) result. The MIPS, with educational discount, cost us $32k: 16 meg, 2 300 meg drives, ethernet, 4 serial ports, MIPS Unix, and Fortran. Unix Review has done reports on both of these machines recently. We found that their results were right on target, at least for what we did. Particu- larly multitasking issues. greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny