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To: Scumbria who wrote (125529)	1/18/2001 7:11:49 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 186894

Re: "Don't underestimate the potential of simple networks to accomplish every kind of multiprocessing task. How about SETI?" Seti is a great example of distributed processing, like your home network, but that doesn't make it SMP. You will not see such an architecture running multiple threads of a single process sharing a single address space, as my dual processor celeron system does right now under NT4.0/WIN2000. EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (125529)	1/18/2001 7:14:17 PM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Re: I can have simulations running over the ether and Inter nets all night long My tasks is simpler, I just run photoshop and found that it can make use of 2-way CPU system nicely but at this moment, does not support N-way system through the network yet, may be in version 10 :-( gary

To: Scumbria who wrote (125529)	1/18/2001 7:22:25 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, <Don't underestimate the potential of simple networks to accomplish every kind of multiprocessing task.> Good point. Compaq decided that 24 8-way SMP servers (each using 700 MHz P3 Xeons w/ 2M of cache) can be clustered together and beat out traditional big-iron servers in TPC-C: tpc.org So even 8-way SMP servers are considered "commodity" compared to what's out there already. Think you can do better by networking 192 single-processor Athlon boxes? Tenchusatsu