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To: Scumbria who wrote (134898)	5/14/2001 4:54:32 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Every large design house in the world uses cluster based computing to distribute the work Yes, but today that's mostly in the form of a pool for redundancy/scaling - not a parallel "cluster aware" application. Beyond databases, there are not many commercially available "cluster aware" applications. For some problems a cheap cluster will of course kick a Merced or any single cpu on the planet - but of course not all problems lend themselves to a cluster solution either. I don't think Merced will have a hard time finding those problems to be applied to. Besides that, what kind of performance do you think a cluster of quad Itaniums could do versus some single cpu x86's. That would be a cluster farm on steroids.