UF749@cc.usu.edu (12/11/89)
We are currently trying to decide between a Decstation 3100, A Sun Sparcstation1 and the Sun 4/330, as appropriate workstations/servers Of concern (in order) are (1) Floating point performance, (2) Graphics performance, (3) Disk performance (as a server), (4) Utility and stability of OS. Languages used for computation will be Fortran and C. The intention is to get 1 server, and 1 to 3 diskless (small disk ) clients with logins feasible from a Mac network attached through Gator/Kinetics/ Ether card etc. I would appreciate any comments and suggestions from people who have either or all of these machines, as to their biases and also what configurations are optimal Ideas on prices and sources for third party disk/memory/boards and experiences Will be glad to post a summary, and to share our direct experiences. Thanks Upmanu Lall Utah Water Research laboratory Utah State University UMC 82 Logan UT 84322-8200 (801)-750-3184 uf749@cc.usu.edu