Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:59:26 +0100 (BST) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: cbrown@aracnet.com Cc: tege@pdc.kth.se, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New monster server Message-ID: <6632.199706261459@amaretto.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <33B2073E.DEBDE29F@aracnet.com> from Chris Browning at "Jun 25, 97 10:07:58 pm"
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> > My company intends to purchase a new compute and disk server early > > this > > fall. We originally intended to get an Alpha system, but it seems > > hard to > > get a reasonable OS without paying an outrageous amount of money. > > (NetBSD > > might be good enough for the alpha platform; but it doesn't seem to > > get a > > lot of usage.) > > Well, it sounds like you are looking for one of the free Un*xes. The > price is certainly right :-) > > > We would like the machine to have on the order of 25 SPECint95 > > (summing the > > SPECint95 on the individual CPUs in case we go for an SMP solution). > > So a > > single CPU 21164 won't do. A single cpu 21264 would do. A 4 CPU > > P6/200MHz/512KB would do. > > Hmm, I guess a 4-way Pentium(R) Pro Processor system would do. I think > that > the benchmarks say 8.5 SPECint95 and 6.5 SPECfp95. I'm not to sure that > you can > "add" them together to come up with a 26 SPECint95 machine :-). If this does mean that a 4 CPU machine isn't enough, I have heard of a 6 CPU P6. I'm not sure that you can get it for $20000 though, and I don't have the URL.
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