Dear Colleagues,
I am considering to replace our old Sun workstation (host to an Inova)
with a more powerful Linux or Solaris box. Since Varian removed Sun from
their website, I assume they will no longer provide upgrade for Solaris
in future. In addition, Blade1500 is not available from market place any
more. The best thing to go now is probably a Dell.
Unfortunately Varian doesn't have any thing about Dell computer in their
website. I wonder if anybody did this upgrade to a Dell on their own
(purchasing computer directly from Dell instead of Varian)? If so, what
additional hardware needs to be ordered from Varian, for instance,
another (special) network interface card to communicate with
spectrometer? Your experience with purchasing Dell PC from Varian is
also welcome.
Your response is highly appreciated. I will summarize to AMMRL list.
Hopefully it will be helpful for others too.
Thanks a lot.
Yongbo
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WCAS Structural Biology NMR facility manager
Northwestern University
Phone: 847-467-1222
TECH, KG88
2145 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208
Received on Tue Sep 19 2006 - 17:15:08 MST