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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