From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 17 20:16:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55AAC37B407 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:16:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1085343 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2001 21:16:47 -0600 Received: from snaresland.acl.lanl.gov (128.165.147.113) by acl.lanl.gov with SMTP; 17 Oct 2001 21:16:47 -0600 Received: (qmail 17853 invoked by uid 3499); 17 Oct 2001 21:16:47 -0600 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Oct 2001 21:16:47 -0600 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:16:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Rayson Ho , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fabi=E1n?= Salamanca , Subject: Re: clustering code In-Reply-To: <3BCE3BDB.6B5A28@bellatlantic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: > And directly comparing the number of nodes with Beowulf-style > clusters is not fair. The Beowulf clusters can be reasonably > efficiently used only for a very limited class of problems > with very high parallelism of subtasks, high computational > complexity of each subtask and very low interactions > between them. So they are a quite degenerated case and pretty > useless for business applications. You can't use qualitative characterizations like "high, high, very low" for this. Do you have numbers? Basically I don't agree. But let's take this off the list. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message