[Bioclusters] non linear scale-up issues?

James Cuff bioclusters@bioinformatics.org
Sun, 9 May 2004 22:16:13 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 9 May 2004, Rayson Ho wrote:

> UD: http://www.grid.org/stats/
> 
> 325,033 years of CPU time collected

he he :-)  Rayson knows his stuff, as do United Devices.  You will not see
mpi any where near this 300k+ CPU years.  Good point.

> BOINC: http://boinc.berkeley.edu

This looks great.  Classic 'grid hype' this certainly is not.  Good stuff.  
Thanks for sending on the link, I really hope that the standards folk keep
the hell away from this.  If they do it may have a real chance...

Best regards,

J.

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