From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 11:37:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06491 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:37:35 -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 LAA06483 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA15397; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:28:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705151828.LAA15397@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:28:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, rcarter@consys.com, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, fenyo@email.enst.fr, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199705151815.MAA01989@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at May 15, 97 12:15:10 pm 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 > > > 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.