Re: Cluster computing drawbacks

nmm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nick Maclaren) writes:

>> Sure, but the claim wasn't that it was impossible, just that it
>> involved more work for the user.

> And that is the claim that I am stating you have not justified.

Okay, here's one example: TGICL, freely downloadable from NCBI. Run
on a single computer: ./tgicl file Run on an SMP: ./tgicl -c N file
(where N is the number of parallel processes to spawn, not unlike -j
for GNU Make). This is trivial to do. How would you go about running
it on a batch-queued system?

>>>> certain type of CPU interconnect. SSI clusters may qualify.)

>>> Server Side Includes?

>> Single System Image.

> Boggle. Does anyone still sell them?

Uh, somebody mentioned VMS, and I thought that was their term. Sorry
if I was mistaken.

-k
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