In article <bgtirl$sb1ab$1@ID-75931.news.uni-berlin.de>,
FalconFly <falconfly@ewetel.net> wrote:
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B)  Has anyone heard of anyone taking a supercomputer or a very fast
mainframe and hooked it up to the system to plow through work units in a
bloc of unused processor time?

Since the SETI Client can't be beowulfed, the amount of CPU's does not
matter, as each has
to complete a WorkUnit individually.
But I'm sure there are numerous SysAdmins who took it upon their big
servers to test the
performance ;)

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I had lunch today with someone who, at his previous job, had a 128-CPU
system in their test lab (he worked for the company which produced the 
system). He said they would use S@h to test processor boards returned
by customers to determine if the boards really had a problem; it was the
best thing they'd found for exercising the CPU/cache/memory section of
the systems.

And, he described a system he'd supported that had over 6,000 CPUs...


Gary

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          Dilbert, 5/23/3