Can a large RS/6000 easily replace a Convex?

[Heiko Schlichting]

mccalpin at perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:
>>johan at dutnak2.tudelft.nl (Johan Haas) said:

>> We are considering to replace our current Convex C1 with a mix
>> of RS/6000 systems instead of upgrading to a Convex C2.
>
>This is a good idea.

I'm not sure about this. I still miss a good batch queueing system on
RS/6000 - one of the famous things on a Convex. And in case of low
swap space AIX kills the process which had allocated most memory. So
everybody can kill large batch processes from other users which are 
running since a long time. Not a very good 'feature' of AIX.

Bye, Heiko.
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