Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Re: Black Box

Hi All,

If memory serves me right. We, the Brits not me personally, put together the
first parallel computer in the early seventies with 128 micros on one board.
The largest fastest computer at the time was the Cray weather service
computer in France. This configuration was over 1000 times faster but there
was no-one around at the time who could program it effectively and it died.

Terry

> This has been possible with linux for some time - see the Beowulf project.

I

> believe a cluster of 80 or so linux computers were used in the making of

the

> film 'Titanic' (although my memory may have muddled the exact details a
> bit). The standard kernel allows you to have support for multi-processors

in

> the one machine. The problem is - and would be on the Windows boxes, that
> very few people have any idea how to write good software for multiple
> independant processor systems.
>
> Ian