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From: patel@cvlsun1.ece.drexel.edu (Patel Maqbool 387-1784)
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Subject: fpu for SUN4/110
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 4 Nov 90 03:00:00 GMT
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We have a diskless SUN4/110 with 8MB main memory without a floating point
unit(fpu). Since most of our applications require floating point
operations they run very slowly on this machine. So we login to our server
and run our applications on the server. Since our server has only 8MB main
memory, we cannot run more than two/three of our applications at a time.
And when we have two/three applications running on the server, it crawls.
Now we have two options:

1) Install a fpu on the 4/110  OR
2) Increase the main memory on the server (4/260).

So I am looking for some suggestions on both of these (price/performance/
vendors) and any other suggestions to improve the speed and usability of
4/110.

Thanks in advance

Patel Maqbool
Drexel University, ECE
Philadelphia PA 19104

patel@CVLSUN1.ece.drexel.edu