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From: lipman@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Lipman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: What to buy with $150,000 ?
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Date: 18 Nov 90 16:37:14 GMT
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Reply-To: lipman@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Robert Lipman)
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Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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We have $150,000 to spend on a computer graphics visualizaiton
system.  We are an Apollo networkd with about 25 nodes.  We
xxx do finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics.
We write a lot of our own analysis codes and also use 3rd party
software.

Should we stick with Apollo or buy a VGX machine?  How would you
configure your dream system? What about connecting an SGI to an
Apollo network.  I know we can ethernet, telnet and ftp but we
want something more transparent?

Thanks in advance for your opinions, e-mail please

Bob Lipman
David Taylor Research Center (A Navy R&D lab)
Computational Mechanics Division
Bethesda, MD