a serious error in sched_ule.c?

Wes Peters wes at softweyr.com
Sun Mar 14 23:56:19 PST 2004


On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:42:59 +0000 Colin Percival
<colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk> alleged:

> At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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.  Introduce her to Dillon!  ;^)

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Wes Peters                                               wes at softweyr.com


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