From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Mon Jul 17 04:40:07 1995 Received: from mserv.rug.ac.be for Patrick.Bultinck@rug.ac.be by www.ccl.net (8.6.10/930601.1506) id EAA17884; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 04:39:38 -0400 Received: from allserv.rug.ac.be by mserv.rug.ac.be with SMTP id AA00295 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:37:51 +0200 Received: by allserv.rug.ac.be (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01444; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:38:32 +0200 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:38:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Patrick Bultinck To: "comp. chem. list" Subject: Machine specs for QC Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear CCL-readers, We have a small budget for a new workstation that will be used for QC calculations, and will have a 1 person load. Our budget is about 30,000 $, and I need some advice. What do you consider most important specs for QC, SpecInt values Specfp XMark 93 Some Mflops CPU speed (in MHz) memory ... I have nice offerings (thusfar) by two three-letter hardware producers. The one machine has all values larger than the first one, but the first one claims from experience that allthough the values are smaller, their machines are equally fast. In short we are already interested in an IBM RS6k/3AT and a DECAlpha 250 4/266... (still waiting for other offers) We already have IBM locally. Any ideas ? (allthough I check CCL every day, please only replies to my e-address, since I would not want to start a commericial better/worse game on CCL, if interested summaries will be sent to people who asked for one) Patrick