On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> It depends. There are a class of problems that lend themselves to such a
> partitioning scheme. One of the more well known are code breaking systems,
> where the code is the same between each nodes, but the data is different.
> At college a few of us wanted to port Crack (breaks Unix passwords) to the
> MasPar that was very underutilized, but we never did get around to doing it.
>
> -spc (Or even rendering---that parallelizes very nicely ... )
Hey, you're a natural for this project. Those are the two very things
we've so far been discussing as possible problems for this super vintage
computer.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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