I once again need your help in doing some planning. It turns
out that our lab has not yet moved to the world of X-windows
with regard to using UNIX boxes as servers, and having PC's or
Mac's log in as X-clients (e.g., to VNMR or XWINNMR).
We have done this a bit, but only so far as to see that when
working with Felix on an SGI Indy with 64Mb of memory, the
slowdown associated with even one X-client log in (we used
another Indy) was too much to be tolerated.
I would like to gather information about what configurations
of Sun or SGI servers the AMMRL group has, and how many clients
you have seen that that server can handle adequately.
If you can provide information, please include:
server type (including Sun/SGI, cpu, memory, network connection)
base application (VNMR, XWINNMR, Felix, modeling package...)
type of work being performed (e.g., # clients doing 2D, # doing 1D)
type of PC, Mac, or Unix workstation used for clienting
X-windows software used on PC or Mac
I will post a summary of responses.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Charlie Fry Tel: (608)262-3182
Director, MR Facility Fax: (608)262-0381
Chem. Dept., Univ. Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706 USA email: fry@chem.wisc.edu
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