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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!gatech!concert!duke!news.duke.edu!canctr.mc.duke.edu!RLA
  2. From: rla@canctr.mc.duke.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
  4. Subject: Indigo R4k/IBM 6k comparison
  5. Message-ID: <8378@news.duke.edu>
  6. Date: 6 Jan 93 21:54:30 GMT
  7. Sender: news@news.duke.edu
  8. Reply-To: rla@canctr.mc.duke.edu
  9. Organization: Duke U. Med. Ctr., Durham, NC
  10. Lines: 16
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: canctr.mc.duke.edu
  12.  
  13. Greetings.  We are considering a purchase of a set of 4 workstations to be
  14. linked together.  Objectives are mainly processing (number-crunching) power
  15. plus the ability to run the GCG DNA sequence analysis suite of programs.
  16. The two remaining candidates are SGI (R4000-based) vs. IBM RS6000s.
  17.  
  18. Anyone with experience on both platforms, including service and reliability
  19. and UNIX performance, please let me know your thoughts.  Overall system
  20. speed is a major consideration.  The IBM is not yet GCG-ready, but a
  21. beta-version will supposedly be ready soon.
  22. Thanks.
  23. Responses either directly to me or to this news group.
  24.  
  25. Rick Alston                                Post: Duke University Medical Center
  26. rla@canctr.mc.duke.edu                           Comprehensive Cancer Center
  27. Phone: 919.684.6944                              Box 3424, DUMC
  28. FAX: 919.684.2311                                Durham, NC 27710
  29.