[base] BASE performance/limits

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Hi BASE users,

I am interested to find out what the limits of BASE are. 
I suppose that the amount of experiments that one can store and analyze 
depends mostly on the underlying relational database, operating system 
and computer hardware. But there might be some performance issues related 
to the design of BASE itself as well, right? (Please correct me if I'm 
wrong!)
Specifically: Has anybody used BASE for dealing with data from more than 
10,000 hybridizations, accessed by 20-30 researchers (not necessarily 
simultaneously)? 
Any estimates on what hardware setup would be required for that type of 
scenario (CPU, RAM, disk-space, etc.)?

Just from following the discussions and from glancing shortly over a local 
installation I am pretty excited about BASE. 
Hopefully it will be suitable for our needs!

Thanks for any information you can provide,

	Karsten
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Karsten Hokamp, PhD          Phone: (001)-604-291-4206
MBB, Brinkman Lab            Email: kh...@sf...
Simon Fraser University      WWW  : www.sfu.ca/~khokamp
Burnaby, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada