Re: Best Workstation

[Daryl Manning <dwm@wakatara.com>]

Have you checked out some of the clusters in a box from Orion 
Multisystems ?

They seem very cost effective. The idea seems sound and possibly ideal 
for what you're looking for. I have a contact there if you're 
interested though I've never used their cluster workstations machines 
myself.

Daryl.

On 29-Oct-04, at 2:02 PM, Javier O. Augusto wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> First of all, I know this is _not_ an on-topic question, but I think it
> is way much better fitted than all those crappy spams coming down.
> Maybe one of you is doing the same research as me and can share some
> opinions..
> Well, the fact is that I'm planning to get a new Workstation for one of
> our Labs doing computational fluid dynamics stuff. Got two options, a
> dual Sun Opteron (I could easyly run Debian on it) *W2100z or a dual 
> Sun
> UltraSPARC III (Solaris only) *Blade 2500, same memory (4GiB) and same
> storage (2x73GiB U320).
> What would be the best 'bang-of-the-buck' for my labs' necessity?
> Straight horse power.
>
> Hope someone could bring some ideas!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jay
>
> PS: Not going after a cluster because of a very tight budget.