Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 10:25:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rcarter@consys.com (Russell L. Carter) Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, fenyo@email.enst.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD Message-ID: <199705151725.KAA15126@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705151553.IAA22312@conceptual.com> from "Russell L. Carter" at May 15, 97 08:53:41 am
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> > 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.
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