Rajib Bandopadhyay wrote: > Dear friends, > Can Beowulf with Linux run all the desktop applications? Will they run > faster? > Regards, > Rajib Bandopadhyay
All? No. A select few, yes! For example, Mathematica has a parallel toolkit and most graphical rendering applications can distribute load. Perhaps you're into airplane simulation? Flightgear can adequately spread the responsibility for multiple display views and instrument rendering across a small dedicated cluster. There are others. You will note, however, that all of these applications have to be made network aware in order to distribute across multiple machines. Generally, the problem being tackled is of such size and value that the extra effort is determined to be justified. -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
