10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
6:09 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
As far as "familiar apps",
though...it's not exactly the type of
equipment you'd want to run Firefox on.
On one hand I suspect the numbers don't make sense in terms of "familiar app
speed" vs. power required to run the machine. On the other hand, vintage
computer collectors don't generally run their hardware for efficiency reasons
anyway :-)
Having said that, running "familiar apps" on a supercomputer seems a bit like
only ever running console apps on a graphics-laden SGI; it's only using a
fraction of the machine's capability, which seems a bit pointless.
cheers
Jules