Hi,
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
> > I tested a distributed POVRay on four double PII/400 w/ 128M RAM - sweet.
>
> Before I go to Beowulf and get lost on that site, can you tell which
> (kind of) applications that would benefit from a cluster? Will my
> mailreader run faster? :-)
No, unforunately not. The application has to be designed to be run in a
distributed environment. Regular application do not benefit from a
cluster. Heck, most applications don't even make proper use of a second
CPU...
Bye,
LenZ
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