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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (6080)	5/5/1999 12:57:00 PM
From: brushwud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

> This is another article that does not bode well for high end SGI systems. Why do you say that? High-end SGI systems are clusters of MIPS processors that run UNIX.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (6080)	5/5/1999 7:08:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Beowulf clusters are more of a threat to IBM's SP2 line than to SGI's boxes. The Origin's chief claim to fame is in being a shared-everything box, 128 cpus (and theoretically a lot more) with access to the same memory space. The Cray T3E is closer to a Beowulf cluster, but the interconnect is still orders of magnitude faster. Beowulf clusters are good for applications that are "embarrassingly parallel" but not so good for anything with even modest interprocess communication. The are many applications that are not embarrassingly parallel and Linux (and Intel) have a long way to go before they start to impact that marketspace.