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SubjectRe: Good news for SPARC/Linux
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 01:59:16PM -0500, David F. Newman wrote:

> > Needless to say, I want one of these... though I wonder if there is _any_
> > real-world application which 14 CPUs would speed up 14 times.
> >
>
> I could easily use all 14 CPUs when ray tracing. Either having
> each CPU render an individual frame of an animation, or giving
> each CPU a piece of a still image to render. It is highly
> math intensive with io only when an image is completed. A
> perfect application for SMP.

This is almost the perfect application for clusters. Clusters don't have
the tight communcation network of SMPs or ccNUMA but tend to be quite
cost efficient which is a good fit for the typical raytracing app.

Ralf

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