davjon@ibmpcug.co.uk (David Jones) (07/05/90)
Is anyone using Solbourne servers for biocomputing applications? We are interested in buying a Solbourne 5/602 as the central server for a new biocomputing lab but as the machine is fairly new to the UK, we haven't been able to find anyone else using it for applications similar to ours. We will be using it to serve various workstations (including Irises), and for general protein sequence/structure analysis - alignment, database searching, simulations, general programming, and to run Oracle for our work on relational protein databases. The raw performance figures look great, the multiprocessing seems a major advantage for our work (a mix of interactive and fairly intensive batch processing), but there could be some specific problems that we cannot envisage. Has anyone got any definite opinions on Solbournes in this field? I'd be grateful for any responses (by E-mail preferably). P.S. I'm told there is a Solbourne mailing list - could someone tell me how to subscribe (if there really is one!). Many Thanks! - David Jones - -- Automatic Disclaimer: The views expressed above are those of the author alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group. -- This message was written, produced and executively directed by David Jones Email: davjon@ibmpcug.CO.UK | JANET: d-jones@nimr.mrc.ac.uk Path: ...!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!davjon | Disclaimer: STANDARD > KEYWORDS : OPINIONS MY OWN NOBODY ELSE'S WHATSOEVER