Re: Cluster computing drawbacks

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Nice example. It needs pretty much no communication

Yes, perhaps that is the problem: it isn't "interesting".
Parallelizing it doesn't pose any challenges, it doesn't (at least not
in most cases) require million-dollar top-500 machines, in fact, it
doesn't even require a fast interconnect. It's just an application
that some users would like to run with a minimum of hassle (and who
gives a damn about *them*?)

It's fairly typical, though.

-k
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