On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Paul L Daniels wrote:
> > 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 ... How far into this sort of programming have you gone? I know a project which might need someone with a combination of turbulence modelling and parallel computing knowledge. Andrew McNaughton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
