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In article <798@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes:
:brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:
:
:>You will be completely shocked to see how
:>low the processor utilization of single user work stations are.  The
:>small size of the utilization factor completely negates the cost performance
:>edge of the Killer Micro inside it.
:
:This is quite correct, and therefore we should stop using personal
:automobiles, too.  Instead we should use taxis, car pools, and
:other forms of better sharing the same basic hardware.  This will
:increase the <10% utilization of most cars.
:
:OK, ob. smiley.  Yes, we like having our own cars, and we like having
:our own local source of computation, and we're going to continue
:to choose this whenever we have a choice.  It's a fact of life.
 
I invite everyone to read the following paper:

Robert Silverman & Sidney Stuart
"A Network Batching System for Parallel Processing"
Software Practice & Experience Vol 19, #12, pp. 1163-1174

We describe a system that allowed us to soak up all the excess
processing time on a SUN network, while not impairing the interactive
use of workstations.

-- 
Bob Silverman
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