On 24 Feb 2009, at 6:10 am, Rajib Bandopadhyay wrote:
Dear friends,
Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications? Will they run
faster?
Beowulf is Linux, so yes, it can run them. Will it be faster? No.
Virtually nothing in the desktop application space can handle parallel
running, and the additional network overhead of having the
applications running on a server and displaying to your local display
will most likely actually make things feel slower.
Tim
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