> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Chris Dagdigian > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:59 PM > To: J Bickhard; Beowulf List > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Practicality of a Beowulf Cluster > > > 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. > >
Or, if you're interested in developing parallel algorithms, message passing, etc. Anything computationally intensive would be potential grist for a Beowulf. For instance, if you wanted to do video compression, or process lots of video frames to do feature extraction? Wasn't there a news story about somebody trying to tag all photos on the internet with the names of everyone in the photo? There's a computationally large but potentially parallelizable task. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
