Greg, Well that's fair of course, I should have said that 5GHz is an unachiveable upper bound for a sufficiently distributable application. If I wanted to add some huge number of integers, which can be generated by some simple formula in ranges at each node, then 10 500MHz machines generating ranges and then computing subtotals would be almost as fast as one 5GHz machine, but for any real apps we would not see such a gain. I'm sure I"m overoptimistic about the "embarassing parallelism" of my own app, but pretty much it's pretty embarassing I'm pretty sure :-) Got's to see. Peter
On 8/28/07, Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 01:28:39PM -0400, Peter St. John wrote: > > > So max thruput would be 10x 500 MHz, sorta a 5GHz computer for > > $1600, > > No, it's like 10 500 Mhz computers, and very unlike a 5 Ghz computer. > > I know some marketing types, and even the CEO of Sun, likes to add up > Ghz. But it's silly to do so. > > -- greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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