Mike Raiford wrote:

> There was somewhere out there a Cray-2 (I think) you could log into via 
> telnet and run apps. It had POV-Ray on it already, an older version (2.x 
> or maybe 3.0) I ran a basic scene from the samples and was surprised at 
> how long it actually took.

Heh. One of the developers working on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 
commented off-hand that he had tried Haskell's STM implementation on a 
machine with 128 CPUs and it had achieved a good speedup.



...OK, WHERE the HELL do you buy something that has 128 CPUs in it?? O_O 
This information surely has a most direct relevance to all who worship 
POV-Ray...!

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