| Re: Sun vs PC Linux - Anyone making the shift? [message #29413 is a reply to message #29300] |
Fri, 15 February 2002 19:45  |
Marc Schellens
Messages: 14
Registered: November 1999
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> What are Windows machines ahead of PC linux machines? I would have
> thought the oppositive would be true.
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> Has anyone gone in either direction (Sun to Linux or visa versa) and
> what were your experiences?
As the PC you tested for speed are different, I think the
result is not very reliable. Perform the test on the same
hardware with Linux and Windows.
We are using here both sun and linux.
Sun is very expensive but also very reliable.
Our servers are sun machines. And till now (knock on wood)
never failed in three years.
They manage about 1TB (Raid5). (One hardisk was once broken,
but because of raid 5 no data was lost)
As workstations we started with sum but now everybody has a linux
box. They work well together with the sun servers.
But are not as stable as the sun machines (which might
be due to more 'progressive' applications).
In another new lab we started with linux servers.
Disk capacity is 500GB (Raid5).
Since one year they work also almost without failure.
(One harddisk broke, but no data was lost s.a.).
To me it appears that nowadays, PC have the much better value,
at least using IDL. Also as Ken said already,
you get a *much* more comfortable environment.
(we had KDE1 under Solaris, but to compile it it took
some effort and CDE... - well its a shame that all the big
workstation companys couldn't come up with something better
- see KDE2).
And usually you do not need 99.9% availability in science.
Provided a powerful backup solution (using DLT), which you
should have anyway you are on the save side.
Concerning IDL, the compatibility is very high.
Our IDL programs run both on IDL for linux and Solaris.
This is not true for windows, here the handling of filenames
has to be adapted.
HDH,
marc
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