In a nutshell:
Science.
Finance.
Rendering & Digital content creation.
... if you have interests (work or personal) in any of these areas,
you'll find a cluster useful.
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:57 AM, J Bickhard wrote:
So, I was thinking of making a cluster, but wondered: what are the
practical uses of one? I mean, you can't exactly run Windows on these
things, and it looks like they're mostly for parallel computing of
complex algorithms.
Would an average Joe like me have a use for a cluster?
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