On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jensen, Andrew J wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first posting to the group. I have a Bruker DRX 500 instrument,
> currently with a SGI O2. It only has a 2 GB hard drive and the internal
> clock is dead. We currently have to run XWINNMR on an external hard drive
> since the IRIX operating software takes up 94% of the hard drive. We are
> evaluating new SGI's and do not want the new one to become obsolete in the
> near future, therefore we are looking at Octanes as well as O2's. Bruker's
> company line is that they do not support Octanes. Does anyone know of a
> reason why? I am assuming it has to do with the application software. I
> know an Octane would be more than we need right now, but we want to make
> sure we have computing power far into the future. We do not perform a lot
> of 3-D processing at this time.
>
> Any suggestions or comments would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
Andy,
In fact you will find that you can make more space on your 2 GB hard drive
by removing some of the less important s/w products that SGI setup for
default installation. This gets the disk usage down below 1Gb. The
sort of products I am thinking about are PeoplePages and such like. If
you would like a list of my "versions" output, I can send it to you.
I agree that it would be nice if Bruker could support a wider range
of SGI products, but I suppose it is difficult for them to do that. In
principle, I don't see why an Octane should not be able to run a DRX, but
again there were problems in migrating from the Indy to the O2. It took
Bruker some months to overcome one particular bug when that transition
occured. It depends on whether you want to risk purchase of an Octane
and see if you can interface it to your DRX and hope everything works,
Regards,
Tony Pemberton
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