Re: SFC Hardware

[Seth Teller <seth@graphics.lcs.mit.edu>]

fred,

re: CPUs, why not go with the multiprocessor machine.
you'll learn how to work with it over time.

re: running OCR under windows.  see

   https://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/newstore/index.jsp

for vmware educational discounts.  bryt can (help) order
vmware as well.

it's probably a good idea to run everything under vmware
anyway -- say, run a vmware linux instance and windows
instance on top of our hardware running linux.  this should
make it so our underlying machine running linux crashes very
rarely if at all -- since crashes and restarts at higher
vmware levels will happen purely in software.

prof. t.

Seth Teller wrote:
> 
> fred -- bryt is a master at pricing, yes, hand it over to her.
> 
> instead of buying a windows machine, find the company "VMware,"
> it's a startup out of stanford.  i believe that VMware will let
> you run a virtual windows machine on your existing linux box.
> you'll still have to figure out I/O issues, but you won't have
> to buy a whole additional machine.
> 
> Fred C. Strom wrote:
> 
>> I wrote about a week ago hoping that the vendor would be willing to
>> give a huge discount because it was a research project, but I have not
>> heard back.  I just sent another email to ask about pricing.  If I
>> don't hear back soon, should I ask Bryt to take over getting the
>> pricing info?
>>
>> I'm also considering putting the OCR on a separate machine running
>> Windows.  Good OCR software under Windows is inexpensive.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:33:18PM -0500, Seth Teller wrote:
>>
>>> fred, what's happening with the OCR software ?
>>>
>>> Fred C. Strom wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've selected two machines -- one a single P4 2.8GHz and the other a
>>>> dual Xeon 2.0 GHz.  Each costs about $1900 and has the same cache size
>>>> and bus speeds.  I would go with the dual processor machine, but my
>>>> only concern is that having two processors may make the computer more
>>>> difficult to deal with.
>>>>
>>>> For the scanner, I found the Epson 1640SU which works through xsane
>>>> drivers with linux.  Its ADF goes at 5.5ppm, which might be a bit
>>>> slow.  Would 5.5ppm be all right for the first SFC prototype?
>>>>
>>>> Here's a list of the hardware:
>>>>
>>>> http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/sfc/hwspecs.html
>>>>
>>>> Fred