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To: backwoods-engineer
You can divide up easily partitionable tasks, such as shading or rendering, but general-purpose computing tasks? No.

Hmm. I guess I ought to quit my job then, since I install and configure general-purpose clusters that range from 16 cores to several hundred.

Think I should tell the users that their software doesn't actually work?

8 posted on 04/09/2010 10:53:52 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce; backwoods-engineer
> Think I should tell the users that their software doesn't actually work?

Oh, noez, don't do that. It's like Wiley Coyote in the RoadRunner cartoons -- he can keep running through thin air, as long as he doesn't look down.

12 posted on 04/09/2010 11:22:00 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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