Hi William, I already have several problems that I could extend beyond our current computing solution (16 node Beowulf: sisters.massey.ac.nz). The problem is convincing a few senior scientists (hope that answers your question Chris, thanks heaps) who've recently received a large government grant that spending a bit of money upgrading our current system is worth while. Basically I want my Biologists friends to know that they'll also benefit from the power of a cluster. I agree that Athlons are probably a better way to go, but frustratingly there are some other issues that have made us consider PentiumIVs as a better solution. Cheers, Paul. > >Shouldn't you be buying the computers for the actual problem at hand? Not >buy the computers first, and then look for problems to solve. If you got >$256,000 budget, then consider buying 1 dual-AthlonMP 2000+ with 1Gig RAM >first, and see how you like it? > >-- >William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> >8 CPU cluster, NAS, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Tin >_______________________________________________ >Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org >http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > >