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To: Michael L. Voorhees who wrote (20800)	10/6/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

That's a valid point. The biggest threat to Sun may be from clusters of low-price Linux boxes. However, at some point, the cluster network becomes a bottleneck, and its complexity rises as the number of nodes squared (unless you do something to limit it), so there is a limit to the scalability of clustering (http://www.linusp.usp.br/ftpmaster/.1/beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov/www.beowulf.org/software/mpi.html) This presents a complication. The MPI software sees Beowulf as a network-of-workstations and expects that all hosts in the virtual machine can send to all other machines via TCP/IP I'm going to go away and think about this, and do some more research. But right now I'm thinking that high-powered ISP's will need clusters of E10000's, and we're back to Sun. P.