a serious error in sched_ule.c?

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Mon Mar 15 00:18:44 PST 2004


Wes Peters <wes at softweyr.com> writes:
> 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.

Actually, the computers in question have 160 CPUs each, so she should
be done in about three weeks :)

DES
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