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- From: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
- Subject: Simultaneous users on single workstation
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:16:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <9211231727.AA04403@menora.weizmann.ac.il>
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- We are in the process of doing a major upgrade of our computer
- systems in the chemical Physics department. One of the questions
- that have been raised is how many users can comfortably(!) work
- interactive on a) 720 b) 730
- with twice the powers. We will not allow any backround
- calculations. Is there any general rule deriving such a number
- based on Mflops/MIPS and MByte RAM?
-
- In general, what is giving a more comfortable working environment
- for a group of eight people doing interactive work? Two
- workstations with 17 MFlops (720 like) with four users or one
- workstation with +/- twice the capacity (730-like) with eight
- users? Note, that behind the workstations, we will have a very
- strong server, on which the users should run all their CPU
- consuming jobs. The workstations will be used only for
- editing/compilation/windowing management etc.
-
- Any experiences with the new HP models will received graciously.
- E.g. how do they compare to DEC's alpha chip?
-
- Please answer by email and if there is sufficient interest I will
- make a summary to the list.
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