Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:42:59 +0000 Colin Percival > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> alleged: > > At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling SmÃrgrav wrote: > > >Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with > > >milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction > > >yesterday at finding out that her latest program only takes four and a > > >half hours per data set. "But honey," says I, "you have 30,000 data > > >sets!" Quoth the love of my life, "That's OK, we've got *two* > > >computers." > > ... and 8 years to waste, apparently. > Wowsers. Sounds like they need a cluster.
Actually, the computers in question have 160 CPUs each, so she should be done in about three weeks :) DES -- Dag-Erling SmÃrgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
