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From: stratton@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Andrew F Stratton)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Ncube 2 Question.
Message-ID: <1991May13.140129.9749@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 11:06:58 GMT
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	I am involved in the consideration of buying an Ncube 2 (we already
have 2 Ncube 1's - one of which is SUN hosted), and Iwas hoping that any
Ncube 2 users could give views on the machine - especially the possibility
of sharing the machine between two departments.

	One department would be wanting to run long (i.e. 1 day to a week)
jobs in the background - the other department would want exclusive access
to the machine for 2 or 3 hour teaching sessions for upto 60 (!) users (on a 
SUN network - so editing will be remote).


	Please reply if you have any suggestions - helpful or otherwise,
though it is not viable for us to purchase any other machine - due to
financial and user library constraints.

	Thanks in advance,
		Andy.Stratton.

	(Ncube Support Officer at Cardiff University, UK).

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Steve Stevenson                            {steve,fpst}@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science,            comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell