RLX blades (was Re: [Bioclusters] altivec-HMMER bechmark results from Erik Lindahl - 6x faster than dual Athlon)

[James Cuff]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, chris dagdigian wrote:

> Sanger Centre has ~800 RLX blades right now doing pipeline and blast
> work. Anyone from there (James Cuff, etc.?) on this list? I know there
> are RLX people here but it would be nice to hear from the sanger crew as
> to what their experiences have been.

We're good :-)  They might not be the fastest per blade, but I can manage
the whole lot with one FTE.  For me the best part is the ease of
management, and performance when you have many nodes is a given.  The RLX
support people are very, very solid too, which really helps.  Some of
their kernel stuff is pure magic to manage the console redirection...

J.

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