__/ [ Hadron Quark ] on Sunday 30 July 2006 16:05 \__
> yttrx@xxxxxxxxx (yttrx) writes:
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Mainstream Parallel Programming
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Whether you're a scientist, graphic artist, musician or movie
>>> | executive, you can benefit from the speed and price of today's
>>> | high-performance Beowulf clusters.
>>> `----
>>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9082
>>>
>>> And Linux nodes are /far cheaper and quicker to deploy...
>>
>> Quicker to deploy? Than what? I've deployed "beowulf"
>> clusters (which is actually kind of a catch all term) with
>> linux, Solaris clusters on Sun hardware, and OpenVMS clusters
>> on old compaq hardware, and they all take about the same
>> amount of time. Linux clustering is no harder or easier
>> than anything else--and its only cheaper than most, not ALL.
Not all, but most others (commercial platforms) require licensing and people
from the 'outside'.
> Dont ask Roy. I doubt if he reads even one hundreth of what he posts -
> and if he does I'd like to know how it benefits his studies - its
> certainly not enhancing his CV.
I read the majority of what I post and a lot of what I read I never post.
Thanks for the concern over my career, but more publication only serve as
two-liners in the CV. And at least what I do is what I have passion and a
spark for. So my occupation becomes a hobby, encouraging me to hop off of
bed in the morning.
>> What makes it so attractive is the amount of software that
>> takes advantage of it without having to employ an army of
>> programmers to hack it to bits (like you have to with Oracle
>> or PeopleSoft).
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