> 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 ... 

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