> that has me buggered, finding a high compute load task to put such a > cluster to the test.
Oh, I've got one, my personal [ but not yet complete ] virtual wind-tunnel ( thought it's more of a dust-tunnel ). The last time I ran it was back in '95 with 50,000 particles on a 100MHz Pentium under OS/2 with a Borland Pascal compiler ( or some Russian all-ASM version ). Needless to say, it ran _slow_, taking about 1 hour per 'tick'. The most fun was exporting the data to PCX files, then using a FLI animator to put it all into a little 'movie'. ... trouble is now I'm having to rewrite it all in C ... -- Paul L Daniels http://www.pldaniels.com Linux/Unix systems Internet Development ICQ#103642862,AOL:cinflex,IRC:inflex A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
