[rescue] Sun 711

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed May 1 17:44:08 CDT 2002


On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 03:37:59PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> What sort of a machine are you going to put this in?  You shouldn't
> saturate a single 64/66 PCI bus, but there won't be a lot of space left
> over for, say, networking, or anything else.  Two PCI busses would be
> Better.  I think you'll want some pretty decent processors, and a
> boatload of ram if you're going to do this with software striping.  What
> platform are you thinking of using?  SPARC, SGI?  Not x86, we trust. 
> :-)

Well, he said for work, and they seem to be a mostly Windows shop.  Still,
we can hope it is an SGI.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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