19 Mar
1999
19 Mar
'99
4:03 a.m.
At 11:07 PM 3/18/99 -0800, Jason Willgruber wrote:
Earlier today, I was reading an article in a magazine
that I get (Science
News) that said Supercomputers were made faster by connecting them in
parallel (and I think someone here was talking about doing it with a bunch
of C64's).
This is highly off-topic for this list - along with discussions of
(contemporary) computer security and/or retaliatory recommendations,
etc. Hardly a minute goes by on the net without some youngster hearing
about a new processor, or a pile of old processors, chanting the
word "beowulf" and thinking that 1 + 1 + 1 + overhead suddenly equals 10.
Also, it's a sure sign they aren't paying the electric bill, and
can't afford a $200 PC that'll beat the pants off their dream cluster.
Sure, there's the sheer hack value, but...
- John