Re: GNOME needs VA's help?

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> You realize of course that most apps won't run any faster at all 
> on a cluster, since they will only run on one box.  You need to write
> custom code using MPICH (or some other message passing interface lib),
> and make sure you work on inherently parallilizable stuff. 

I do not care for running the applications on the cluster.  I have an
Alpha here.  But I could certainly use a distributed Make facility.

I used to do all of my sgi kernel compiles on a 32-cpu Origin machine
under 15 seconds here, then I just rcped the resulting kernel to a
boot machine and rebooted the Indy.

> Unfortunatly, clusters simply don't act at all like an SMP box
> (threads don't migrate, memory isn't shared, etc).

I know.  ssh/make -j does scale :-)

Miguel.