On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Tarjei T. Jensen wrote:
>
>I'm bigoted, so my first choice would be an SGI Origin 350 with 4 700MHz
>CPUs with an PCI-X module. If I could get faster CPUs, I would. If I expect
>that I never will go beyond 4 CPUs, then a tezro in a rack mount will do.
>
>If you are a sun shop you should probably be thinking of a SunFire V480 and
>up. Which one depends on CPU speed and number of expansion slots. You should
>perhaps go for a system which backs up to disk and then clones to tape (that
>is what we are planning for the time being).

SGI is not an option for us because SnapImage isn't supported on Irix.
Thanks for the suggestion. I suspect that based on all the comments here
that maxing out our 450's CPUs and RAM is a good idea, at least until we
can look at getting funding for a faster machine.

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