Suitability for a terminal server
Hello all,
I'm considering using a 4-way IA-64 (Intel Lion server) as the host for
about 40 X-windows terminals (i.e., I want it to completely manage 40 remote
displays). We've been running Debian on this system for a while, but it's just
been sitting in a closet and crunching numbers; I've not tried any "interactive"
applications on it. We'll need to be able to run Gnome, Abiword, and other apps
of that ilk. Does anyone have any experience with Debian/IA-64 in such a
setting? Are these sorts of apps stable? We've used Alpha hardware of a similar
configuration (4-way ES40, 8GB RAM) for this task previously, so I think the
Lion should be OK hardwarwe-wise.
On a related note, if anyone has experience with biology apps on this
platform, I'd also love to hear about it. I'm thinking Clustal X/W, GCG, LAMARC,
MrBayes, PAML, PAUP*, PHYLIP, and so on.
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
dmyers@pomona.edu
http://newfish.mbl.edu/Lab/Personnel/myers-daniel
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