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Old May 11th, 2008   #6 (permalink)
echosierra
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Clusters are nice for a lot of things, but real-time emulation isn't one of them.

Head has to decide how to delegate the job, encode this information, transmit, each node has to decode, execute, encode return information, transmit, head has to decode and interpret.

For a program that is designed specifically to accomplish tasks in a very short amount of time, this overhead is usually unacceptable.
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