From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 10:34:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02281 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 10:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA02276 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 10:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA15126; Thu, 15 May 1997 10:25:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705151725.KAA15126@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD To: rcarter@consys.com (Russell L. Carter) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 10:25:37 -0700 (MST) Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, fenyo@email.enst.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705151553.IAA22312@conceptual.com> from "Russell L. Carter" at May 15, 97 08:53:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > computers, but I can live with it :-). (With six boxes, a common > > scientific process could take nearly 1/6 of the time on a fast network). > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > The difference between "could" and "does" is the > reason for the failure of (nearly) every business unit that sold > highly parallel/cluster systems. Except Goodyear. And Thinking Machines Corp. And Cray Computing. And Cray Research. And Fujitsu. And... I think the list of successes so vastly outnumbers the list of failures that your parenthetical "nearly" is *way* out of place here. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.