amartin at stagleys.demon.co.uk (Andrew Martin) writes:
BTW, I would think that you should be able to get an Alpha box for
much less than $6000-8000, even with a gig of ram. 3-4 would be more
reasonable.
nathan
> Dave Kristofferson (kristoff at NET.BIO.NET) wrote:
>> : I'm thinking about setting up an in-house BLAST server on a limited
> : budget and was wondering what kind of performance people are getting
> : out of Linux machines these days. I've received some attractive
> : quotes on 600 MHz Alpha and dual 450 MHz Pentium II systems with 1 GB
> : of RAM in the $6,000 - $8,000 range. I'd be interested in hearing
> : people's experiences with similar systems.
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