Hi All
I posted this question last week and got three replies. Since then
we've been having problems with mail deliveries at this site and I
may have missed some replies so I'm trying again with a slightly
different version of the question.
We're thinking about buying some alpha systems from third party
suppliers. These systems are sometimes called alpha clones although
they use Dec motherboards.
I found James Spottiswoode's summary (May, 1996) in the archives
which gave good reports about Aspen Systems (www.aspsys.com) and
Nekotech (www.alphapower.com). Both are offering alpha systems with
the Alpha AXP 21164-A CPU at clock rates up to 500 Mhz.
These systems will be used here mainly for number crunching. Frequently
we'll be calculating large mulit-dimensional models so we're worried about
performance.
Would anyone running any of these or similar systems like to comment on
their performance? We're particularly interested to know if the
performance degrades for large jobs.
Thanks
Ian
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Received on Wed Feb 19 1997 - 23:08:11 NZDT