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SubjectRe: Good news for SPARC/Linux
On 10 Dec 1998, Matthias Urlichs 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.

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