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From: lada@ws6303.gud.siemens.at (marino.ladavac@siemens.at)
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To: tlambert@primenet.com, stox@enteract.com
Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
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> From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct  7 06:28:00 MET 1997
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:50:37 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.sa.enteract.com>
> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Building parallel "Beowulf-style" supercomputers with FreeBSD
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
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> 
> On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> >Unfortunately, if you are looking for a cool name, you are going to be
> >reusing one.  The latest incarnation appears to be "Javelin", a loosely
> >coupled, massively parallel JVM type thing.
> >
> 
> I used to drive a Javelin, somehow that name does not fill me with great
> confidence in performance. Wait a minute, "loosely coupled, massive," 
> hey that does work. ;->

Hey, I used to drive one of these too, but I booted to an Olds 455 instead of
a preinstalled cca. 200 Six.  Just don't ask me where the radiator and the
battery went nor how many gallons per mile it managed :)  It _did_ rock, 
though.[1]

/Marino (showing his age again:)

[1] It was a '68 model.  Can you believe, it was considered to be a
    smallish car at the time
> 
>