Craig Falconer wrote:
Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote, On 17/02/10 13:13:
Different folks wrote :
Since you are doing Computer Science and I am doing the rollout :-)
Yeah - watch out... Pete lurks here.
The MINIMUM machine for unix courses is a quad core with 4Gig of
memory and a 22" widescreen. (They dual boot windows)
Wow - screens have got smaller since the sun days ;)
Bigger and flatter but only the same resolution as the old
CRTs
Another option is some mega-fat VM servers which generates new windows
machines from a template. Guest OS get destroyed when user is finished
with it and a fresh one is copied for the next user.
I guess a terminal server environment isn't appropriate ?
Have that as well but Windows doesn't like lots of login sessions..
on a 8way Xeon? shows up as 16 processors with 32GIG memory still
doesn't handle lots of login sessions..Dies around 50.
We would like to virtualise it but have to get a round "TUIT' first.
> If you want to do things that don't effect other users, and improve
> your learning... that is what the department wants you to do.
That's not what you said back then!
You must have been a special case ;-) :-)
(And I've mellowed :-) )
Pete
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