Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:16:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> To: <babkin@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fabi=E1n?= Salamanca <dhrcorp@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: clustering code Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110172112300.17828-100000@snaresland.acl.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <3BCE3BDB.6B5A28@bellatlantic.net>
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: > And directly comparing the number of nodes with Beowulf-style > clusters is not fair. The Beowulf clusters can be reasonably > efficiently used only for a very limited class of problems > with very high parallelism of subtasks, high computational > complexity of each subtask and very low interactions > between them. So they are a quite degenerated case and pretty > useless for business applications. You can't use qualitative characterizations like "high, high, very low" for this. Do you have numbers? Basically I don't agree. But let's take this off the list. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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