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Re: Cray EL

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From: Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 17:03
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In article <BzL9CC.9E@rex.uokhsc.edu>, ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
|> 
|>        I am curious as to what anybody thinks of the Cray EL.  I am
|> looking over some stuff, but I was wondering what other people think of
|> it -- especially people who have worked with it. 

    The slowest NFS server I've ever used!!  And after one full year
of operations, Cray still hasn't managed to fix this.  Also the least stable,
though to be fair Cray seems to have finally succeeded in providing
us with a stable machine.  You wouldn't believe how often it used to
crash in the first few months.

    
-- 

Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
	SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
brossard@sic.epfl.ch
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From: brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
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