Date: 22 Jun 99 14:30:22 PDT From: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> To: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@alcnet.com>, <mladavac@metropolitan.at> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RE: [Announcing new distributed.net Team FreeBSD site]] Message-ID: <19990622213022.26524.qmail@www0i.netaddress.usa.net>
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"Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com> wrote:
> [ML] Outperform doing what? There's simply no way a PII would
> make a better space heater than the cluster, even if it
> makes a Nice Try:)
> > The only take I could get would be something about resurrecting stuff=
> > from the junkyard for useful work.
> =
> [ML] Hey, careful about junkyard! This reminds me of some
> people I know who put PIII and U2W SCSI disks as file
> servers on 16Mbps TokenRing, whereas your junkyard '486
> saturates it just as well. /Marino> --
> =
> He has a point, I don't know how this would be impressive to people. =
Not
> to diminish the work, I checked out the site and it's a neat project...=
just
> as Jesus Monroy said, though, it's a lot of junk computers. The team
> welcomes any computers it can get, but I just don't know what would mak=
e the
> BUDS project standout...looking at the BUDS archetecture, it would seem=
that
> you would still have to run the client on each and every machine separa=
tely
> which would be no different than anyone else's network of standalone PC=
s.
> Now if you could get it to run a single client with the threads distrib=
uted
> across computers... ;)
>
I appreciate your comments. =
I have will consider some opinions today.
'Threads' will not be in them.
Threads are to sychronize and qualfiy not and item for =
efficeny or effectiveness.
> So, yes, it would be great if BUDS would contribute to Team FreeBSD. =
But I
> don't what press could come out of it. I'm working on getting team memb=
er's
> stats plotted so you could put the graph on the BUDS website showing th=
e
> work it is doing, but that's about all I can think of.
> =
> Now if I could only graph the heat produced while processing keys... =
:)
> =
That might be worth considering. :-)
---
"I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, =
pop-up-happy dungeon like NT."
http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml
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