gauging interest in VAX 6000-530

I recently migrated from a gorgeous 160 processor Big Blue SP2 to a 64 node (4x500Mhz pentiums/node) AC3 Velocity NT cluster. (See http://www.tc.cornell.edu/UserDoc/SP/what.is.sp2.html ; I hope it is accessible outside Cornell). The reason? We did not have funding to upgrade the SP2, and the NT cluster was sort of a gift. The switch in the NT cluster is supposed to be several times faster than that in the SP2, which is 150MB/s (it is also 6 years newer). Quite frankly, I don't see a performance improvement of that magnitude as a user. And I am not happy with the scheduler and the development environment (understatement). But everything is under development, so perhaps things will improve soon. As an aside, installation of the cluster took 15 hours for a 7 person team, while the SP2 took weeks ... other links if you are interested... http://www.tc.cornell.edu/er/media/1999/cluster.html "Zane H. Healy" wrote: -- Carlos Murillo-Sanchez email: cem14(a)cornell.edu 428 Phillips Hall, Electrical Engineering Department Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853