In a recent posting, <benites_at_cs.unca.edu> asked for infos about the
various alpha servers.
I was just about to post the same request ...
Here we are a biology lab (might not be your cup of tea...). Our main
applications deal with the scanning of "sequence databanks", for example to
find whether my recently determined sequence looks like another sequence
already in the databank. For the time being, the databanks are flat files
of several Moctects. These applications are rather I/O hungry. Some other
programs, however, use much more CPU.
For the moment we run a Vax 6300 under VMS. We want to move to Unix, and
intend to buy an Alpha platform.
On the average, we have 15-20 simultaneous users -not necessarily all very
active.
My question is: would you think that an Alphaserver 1000 would be
sufficient, or should we consider an Alphaserver 2100 ? Of course, we would
prefer the cheapest solution, but paying less for getting a saturated
machine would not be a good option...
Thank you for your help,
Jean-Loup
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