CompuServe Messages

Problems, we had alot of problems …… Power problems, heat problems, cabling problems, etc. We managed to get it sorted out by dividing the units into different subsytems across the net and putting them into different rooms. I don't currently have a method of running them all continuously, that's why we're moving to larger space. We are running 8 continuously for the proposal animation and haven't had a single problem running days on end. Sure ?????? Well I guess as sure as I can be at this point. The original test was just to see if it could be done, and wasn't meant to check all of _your_ network stability. We were choking the net with the file transfers but we've devised a workaround for that. It's a fairly large undertaking to bring them all up. I sincerely hope I don't run into any problems with it when we reconnect and bring it up. I'm going through "ALOT" of hassle and expense bringing them all together under one roof. I need it to work right for a large contract I'm bidding. Is there a specific reason, I should recheck everything before I bid this? At the moment there are only two ways to do this. Invest in the rest of the machines and run R3 across a large net, or put the money into several VGXTs. The problems with the latter is that I have to get alot of copies of an SGI package. We have decided that if it became a problem with the file transfers, we'd break the system into five distinct nets of ~20 machines each. Lock them to a central hub and then send tasks to the individual lans. Other than that I don't forsee any problems. ALthough I've had sleepless nights thinking about it, "it's sorta untested", I am fairly confident that it can be done. At least I was until the chief architect of the program started asking about problems. Maybe I should approach this project on a tried and tested platform? Lets put it this way, I have three of the "best" Novell techs in the world, if we encounter any problems, I'll be sure to voice them extremely loudly here on CIS. P.S. – I certainly hope we don't run into problems, Adesk has been advertising 9,999 nodes with one copy. You know I'm fairly neurotic, now I won't sleep for a while.