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Subject: Re: New monster server
In-Reply-To: <33B2073E.DEBDE29F@aracnet.com> from Chris Browning at "Jun 25, 97 10:07:58 pm"
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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:59:26 +0100 (BST)
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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.