Re: Cluster computing drawbacks

Greg Lindahl wrote:
> In article <87oe8ovf3r.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Ketil Malde <ketil+news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> There are plenty of million-dollar loosely-coupled clusters on the
> top-500 list that run embarrassingly parallel apps.
>
> -- greg

Sure. It's the *other* apps that they run embarassingly badly. ;-}

Randy

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