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On 25/10/12 11:20, paul sutton wrote: > clearly at the end we would need to find some sort of app that would run > to prove its using multiple processors. Factoring primes. Hash cracking. Pre-computing rainbow tables. Etc. Let's face it, outside of academia, that's what we want massive parallelism for. Except a Super Micro chassis with a bunch of PCIe v3 GPGPUs is the way forward. Even purely for fun, I'm not sure I see the point of bothering to cluster Pis together. Weak CPU, slow interconnect, glacial performance, buggy distributions... If you want to play with SMP stuff, surely your main PC or even laptop has more than one core these days? PS: Gordon's old job sounds really, really cool. Did you actually get to work with Transputers? So envious. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq