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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Milde who wrote (10494)	7/17/1998 11:10:00 AM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Thank god for the sunshine from SUNW in sunny California with all the cloudiness in Redmond. Can you imagine being stuck as a developer (and user as well) with the stuff from Redmond? I need some help. I develop high-end numerical analysis software. The JINI software is exactly what I need (however this will be in the future). I am presently using MPI (distributed non-symmetric processing) for a parallel implementation of GMRES (which is a large non-symmetric matrix solver). Anyway, I'm an independent consulting scientist and I need some computing horsepower from some high-powered unix servers or workstations or STARFIRES. I'm presently using just two pentium-class computers. Is there a business or entity that rents (or preferably gives under beta testing, etc.) time over the net to scale-up my application? Some of my runs are lasting 2-3 weeks on the two MPI'd Pentium-class machines (which are running unix). By the way, what happened to time-sharing? I can't find any. Regards