From: lindahl@cs.virginia.edu (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: Re: multi-cpu machines and mpi Date: 21 Aug 1998 19:40:50 GMT Organization: a guest of Shadow Island Games Message-Id: <6rkig2$amt@news1.newsguy.com> References: jjv5@psu.edu writes: > There's a lot more to making a usable parallel machine than price. You > can buy a pile of cheap machines clunked together with bailing wire and > think you have a real deal on your hands, then spend $10,000 in salary > getting the thing to work and trying to keep it working, or you can spend > that $10K on a real machine, plug it in, forget about it, and get your > work done. Most competent people building clusters need about 2 hours per CPU to get the thing going. Perhaps you hired the wrong person. -- g