Ok, so can anyone give some pointers as to how to project the benefits
of multiple processors?
I recently considered looking for some Pentium Pro 200 cpus(2), but it
was suggested P II was a better way to go. I had some info that the P
Pro was, perhaps, better and last year(I think) I read that IBM had
shown a Linux box in a show in Germany sporting 4 PPROs. Wow! I guess it
cooked!
I have a chance to purchase a Gigabte MB for dual P II and clock speed s
to 333MHZ.
I was originalllly planning on Tyan or Asus(recommended as very good
makes, but a recent MB article included Gigabyte as a good choice. Sorry
for the rambling....)
I tend to be conservative and speed is not all there is faster
computing.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
TIA,
Bob Russell
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>
> 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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