2009/2/24 Robert G. Brown <[email protected]>: >> In general, however, they will not run faster. In order for an > application to run faster, it has to be written to run in parallel, and > most desktop applications are not. >
Interestingly enough, my local Linux User Group recently had a discussion on the Reia language http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Language The 'threads' of the Erlang virtual machine can be migrated to other machines. Blue skying a little, if mechanisms like this were used for desktop-type applications they would be able to be load balanced across a cluster. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
