27 Jan
1999
27 Jan
'99
12:45 p.m.
perform it easy, but as you said, there is a hack
value, and see
it from a 1984 perspective, it _will_ be a huge power in that
seting. A cluster of 64 working nodes (plus some 20 communication
nodes) might produce a peek performance of 18 MIPS(6502) - that
can be near a 20 MHz 386 (or 486) - and a 20 MHz 386 was _way_
out of reach at that time.
I've been building a Beowulf cluster out of discarded 486 and Pentium
junk. Even got a 64 port hub to connect the thing. I expect to be below
the 10.9 gflops reported so far by at least an order of magnitude. But
that's hardly the point. That's most why nobody's heard from me on the
list lately. =-D
Anthony Clifton - Wirehead