[LUAU] Extrem linux

[Chris Wong]

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, George Toft wrote:

> From what I've read, applications have to be written
> for Extreme to take advantage of the cluster.  Am I
> wrong, or can my growing empire of 386 & 486 computers
> beat out a Pentium III ???  (On the other hand, I
> could almost buy a PIII for what I've paid in NICs,
> hubs, and cabling.)

Probably not. Communication Overhead will kill you as you get larger. Only
ridicously trivial problems scale well (read distributed.net)

--
chris
but it still would be cool.


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