[FRIAM] Practical Parallelism

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> In other words, given Redfish, Commodicast, and other local  
> scientific computing endeavors, what would be interesting systems for  
> our scale of computing?  I.e. reasonable increase in power with  
> modest change in architecture.
>   
Get a Mac Pro with low-end processors and then upgrade it to Clovertown 
quad core. 
Eight processors, and fast ones..  Should work well for multithreaded 
Java code.