On 18/08/14 15:31, J. Roeleveld wrote: > <snip> valid points, and interesting to see the corrections of my understanding, always welcome :) > Looks nice, but is not going to help with performance if the application is > not designed for distributed processing. > > -- > Joost > this is the key point i would raise about clusters really -- it would be nice to not need for example distcc configured and just have portage run across all connected nodes without any further work, or to use a tablet computer which is "borrowing" cycles from a GFX card across the network without having to configure nvidia grid: specifically these two use cases have wildly different characteristics and are a great example of why clustering has to be designed first to fit the application and viceversa.
/me continues to wonder if 10GigE is fast enough to page fault across the network ... ;)
