Hi, Thanks very much for all of your tips! Daryl: no I did not know anything about Orion Multisystems. Checked the homepage and it seems to be an interesting stuff, thanx!! Peter: Yes I'm definetly going after the W2100z with SATA drives. Regarding Macs vs. AMD/Intel, read an article on Toms Hardware with a lot of interestings results specially Opteron beating up the G5! Cool :) > A cluster of cheap-o Celerons on mobos with integrated video and lan is > _very_ cheap. It's not scalable, but 10 600$ machines in low-profile cases > sitting in a corner can be useful. (If you've got the admin time and skills > to manage hardware that won't PXE boot, so you need floppy disks and > etherboot...) could be, but the labs relies on a proprietary (and very expensive) software.. its way much cheaper to licence a workstation than a mini-cluster made out of celerons =/ Thanks again, Jay
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