Linux Terminal Server Essay

[Steve Meyers]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:50, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> Matthew Frederico wrote:
> > The more computers you have, your computational power goes up
> > exponentially with each machine.  So on a cluster of 300 486's you would
> > get some serious bang.  People don't buy supercomputers any more, they
> > buy SUPER clusters.
> 
> In case you were serious...  no.  your power goes up linearly at best 
> with each machine.  And there are are application domains where clusters 
> are a poor fit.

That made me laugh too.  Exponentially?  Get me a friggin' cluster!  I
need to buy a few hundred 486's!

Steve