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Douglas Eadline deadline at plogic.com
Mon Feb 19 18:30:39 PST 2001


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Alan Grimes wrote:

> Hey, I followed some links off the windoze $2000 site and came across
> some 32 way/64gb systems from Unisys! (Xenon)
>
> It would surely outperform a PC cluster and be WAY easier to program
> than today's beowulf software... Though I'm not sure about the price or
> linux compatability, these are really extreme.

Maybe. Write some code, run benchmarks, get a price. This is what really
matters.

>
> Linux REALLY REALLY sucks in a lot of ways... =(

Well this is pretty much a general statement about many things :)

Doug

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