Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:28:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, rcarter@consys.com, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, fenyo@email.enst.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD Message-ID: <199705151828.LAA15397@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705151815.MAA01989@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at May 15, 97 12:15:10 pm
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> > > 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... > > Hmm, how many of these are still in business selling highly parallel > systems? Sounds like failure to me... Well, Goodyear was a one-off 65536 processor machine for NASA to do fluidic modelling of laminar air flow over shuttle parts, so it can't count as having failed. Let's see: TMC is still going. Cray Computing is still going. I don't know about Cray Research now that Seymore is dead. Fujitsu is still going. Oh yeah: DEC and Sun also did (and still do) cluster computing. What kind of machine is Deep Blue? 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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