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 > -- > http://www.geekpunk.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ++[>++++++<-]>[<++++++>-]<.>++++[>+++++<-]>[<+++++>-]<+.+++++++..++ > +.>>+++++[<++++++>-]<++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message