Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:58:59AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : that 75% of the interest in our project has nothing to do with my > : project goals but instead are directly associated with work being done > : by our relatively small community. I truely appreciate that effort > : because it allows me to focus on the part that is most near and dear > : to my own heart. > > Big question: after all the work that will go into the clustering, other than > scientific research, what will the average user be able to use such advanced > capability for?
Heh. I'm probably not an average user (I'm just an amateur OS geek), but the day I can compile OpenOffice in under an hour on my cluster of five DragonFly PC's will be the day I die and go straight to Heaven. Yes, I once hoped to achieve World Peace, but I'm older now and my goals have become slightly less ambitious.