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From: samg@tank.uchicago.edu (Sam Gassel)
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Subject: How many interactive users on SparcServers?
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Date: 10 Jan 90 02:15:11 GMT
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We are contemplating the installation of a cluster of 2 or 3 SparcServers
in the 330 to 370 class to provide basic unix service, (as opposed, for
example, to high-end research power) for campus users.  (More machines
could be integrated into the cluster in the future.)

Access would be via a combination of serial and network connections, and
expected uses are primarily of mail/news/editing and small statistical
packages.  

If you have already done something similar, how many simultaneous users
have you found that these machines can comfortably handle without a
serious degradation in interactive response?  Are there any configurations
you would avoid?  

Please send email to samg@tank.uchicago.edu and I will summarize.

Sam Gassel			Academic and Public Computing
samg@tank.uchicago.edu		University of Chicago Computing Organizations