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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


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