Who runs large capability jobs

[Doug Shubert]

hmm..

>
>
> Commercial folks are headed in that direction. You can decide for yourself
> if you think that embarrassingly parallel sites like the 1,000 cpu genetic
> algorithm site is "a single job", or if Google's cluster is running "a
> single job". But I assure you that the protein folding guys are headed to
> 1,000+ cpu runs. And they have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend. On
> computers.

Would 40,000 processors with an aggregate SpecFP95 of 1,284,962
(the equivalent processing power of 17,000 Alpha 21264 750Mhz) working
on the same problem be "embarrassingly parallel"?
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/statistics/stats.html

not to mention the price/performance.

>
> Right. Whatever. I don't care what the rule is. I do what I do, you do what
> you do, we compare notes on this mailing list so we both can learn. Arguing
> or discussing what's typical is about as interesting as the periodic
> comp.arch flamewar "Who cares about anything but x86, only x86 is
> important"... "who cares about x86, microcontrollers ship in 10 times the
> volume"... "well, I want to talk about Alpha, because it's best for my
> app"...
>

Since we are breaking the rules...

Doug