Linux Terminal Server Essay

[Matthew Frederico]

Yeah yeah yeah .. live it up guys...  ;)

-- Matt

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 16:26, Steve Meyers wrote:
> 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
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Matthew Frederico <matt at ultrize.com>