Hello Mike!
On Tue 06 Jan 1998 at 17:33 you wrote the following to William Hargrave:
 MB> I don't really know.  It is also possible that Linux simply has
 MB> support for some of the proprietary schemes.  I would also have to
 MB> wonder, despite my liking for Linux, whether anyone has ever tested
 MB> anything as exotic as support for 16 CPUs.  You would need to work for
 MB> a really tolerant employer or research lab to get away with that, but
 MB> there is a cadre of people doing fairly advanced things with Linux.  I
 MB> think Arjen Lentz or someone like that was supposed to be porting
 MB> MkLinux to the Cray, which is about the same thing.
There are a few people who use Linux in this kind of environment - I once met 
someone who found out it was cheaper to get a load of P200 machines plus an 
100BaseTX network and install linux, and some processor sharing software, 
rather than buy a supercomputer. Interesting stuff - I just wish I could 
remember his URL.
 WH>> I've never progressed to this new-fangled idea of having
 WH>> more than one CPU per machine in any case ;-)
 MB> In college, I read everything ever written about parallel processing.
 MB> I don't think it is possible to do that now.
Certainly come a long way. Intel have a machine with 4096 P200 processors, 
apparently. Why someone would want to use what is basically now an 
inefficient processor in something like that is beyond me, really.
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 Will                                        
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