Warp wrote:

>   I have never thought about multiple processors in that way: It makes
> it faster to realize that it cannot be done. :P

I forget who, but somebody once wrote: "A supercomputer is a device for 
turning a compute-bounded problem into an I/O-bounded problem." (As in, 
if you take a large problem and throw lots of CPU at it, then I/O and 
storage become the problem...)

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