[Beowulf] commercial clusters

[Chris Samuel]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 3:37 am, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

> No average joe knows the word 'linux'.
> For them an astronaut course is easier than learning linux.

That is demonstrably false:

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Both the folks who build and those who receive these systems are very often 
the "average joe" (or joe-ess) whom you refer to.   Just look at the photo on 
their main page of the users of the thin client network they set up for a 
Melbourne library..

Chris
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