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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (4953)	6/4/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: Doug Skrypek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Did anybody notice the classified ads placed by SGI in the WSJ on Tues and Weds? Looking to build its team for the Visual PC...

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (4953)	6/4/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: John M. Zulauf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

> But my guess is that folks using multi-headed SGI's > are smart enough to igure out how to setup and > maintain a Linux Extreme cluster. Maybe. But I think that generally that complexity tends to increase far more quickly with numbers of processors in a cluster than in a SMP or ccNUMA system. Also, as has been said, some problems break up really well over clusters, and others just don't. Even those that do cluster well frequently require far more application and configuration specific tuning on a cluster than a large single image system. At some level the choice between a cluster and a large system is chosen by the problem type and whether you have better access to capital or labor. Universities love clusters as money is often tight but the grad students from a "slave labor" force. Large F500 companies frequently have easy access capital, but have to actually pay their staffs. Kinda of new topic tangent thing What do you get when you combine multi-megabit network to every home, connect to idle personal computers and household servers at night, combined with huge rooms of idle video-on-demand servers (sized for Friday snd Saturday evening) -- and it's 2AM MTWTh... I don't know either, but it's coming. Remember that Compuserve, the mother of the online craze, started with idle business computer system timeshare access sold to early adopters after hours. The idle resources available to new generation of technology explorers is going to be truly amazing... but how to make money on it?