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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  7 Mar 2009 00:19:25 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] threads vs forks
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> Sadly, if a WORM is your only application, then no one cares.
> At least not enough to pony up for real peformance.  The folks
> at places like Sandia are interested in running HPC applications
> and there are a lot of people in other industries such as big oil
> and finance that are willing to pay for performance for running
> HPC applications, VMs which tend to have high I/O requirements when
> an OS patch comes out, etc.

ask not what a technology can do for the world,
ask what a technology can do for you!

- erik