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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 15:31:51 -0500
From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD
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On May 05, 1997 at 01:55:53PM -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Parallel computing is not cost effective,

Hmm.  Show references please.  You might want to check out a paper that
discusses this issue:

    D.Wood and M.Hill, "Cost-Effective Parallel Computing",
        IEEE Computer, Feb 1995

--
Jonathan