On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:18:47PM +0530, Partha Pratim Ghosh announced: > Dear David, > > A good question. I think I can provide some partial answer and the rest may be >given by my friends on the net. > > Suppose you are doing a work on simulation --- might be you are simulating a >physical experiment, say of subatomic particles, or say, you are > simulating the construction process of DNA moleculkes, etc. Each of these require >VERY heavy computation and it is seen that most of the algorithms > here are not of very good kind, complexity-wise, if you think of a single processor >machines. However, if your algorithm is developed on parallel or > distributed architecture, then it is known that many such "bad' kind of algorithms >turn out to be good or easy. This calls for distributed or > parallel architectures to be introduced in solving such problems. > > I hope the necessity is clear. About these kinds of architectures can >Arup/Indranil or the Gurus of Ilug-Cal help me and David out ? > > Thanking you, > > Santhosh David wrote: > > > Dear members, > > > > i have another doubt too. > > > > 1.Why are workstations(Sun etc...)preferred compared to ordinary PCs for >simulations??.Do they have any speciality?? > > > > 2.Though the speed of ordinary PCs has risen dramtically(2 Ghz)in what area are >they still slower(or infefficient) compared to the workstations.?? > > > > thanks in anticipation > > > > yours sincerely > > > > santhosh david > > > > II M.Sc applied electronics > > > > REC-Tiruchirapalli(www.rect.edu) > > > > India.
er...i'm don't know much abt this (beshirbhagi mathar upor die jae;-) but beowulf may help check out the HOWT at linuxdocs cheers Sayamindu : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : ext2 to ext3 conversion LOST #089 Point your browser to the following howto if u are interested in converting your existing ext2 filesystem to ext3 : http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>###################################### : -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
