At 10:44 AM 09/21/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I think you just compile  whatever application with a cluster-optimized 
>library
>and that's good.  Of course, the app has to be the type with little i/o and
>lots of cpu time so that it's worthwhile to run it in a cluster, so I guess
>you're mostly right.  I think we would build a cluster and then just stand
>around staring at it, saying "OK, we built this thing, now we need 
>something to
>run on it".

My big problem with building a cluster is the machines we'd use.  Building 
a cluster of 486s or Pentium75 is fine, but it's NOT fast....

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