Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: Harry Philips <hphilips@epix.net>
Subject: Re: profit from using parallel computers
Organization: HKP Enterprises
Date: 4 Mar 1995 21:10:49 GMT
Message-ID: <3jfbin$31n@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

In article <3j4pcf$rkt@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, zxu@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Zhichen Xu) says:
>
>We are very much interested in the profit that can be made by using a
>parallel computer.  We would greatly appreciate if there is anyone who
>would like to provide us with information of 
>
>(1) the kind of parallel machine they are using,
>(2) the cost of the machine, 
>(3) the kind of applications they are running on the parallel machine,

	There was an article in Business Week several years ago about 
	massively parallel computers. A few had been sold at the time.
	One of the tricks was to find applications that were parallel
	in nature. One example cited was one of the major on-line
	services. It may have been Dow Jones News. The application was
	to service subscriber queries against their HUGE database. 

	A likely scenario was to allocate a (some) processor(s) to each
	subscriber as he called in. When the query is satisfied the
	processor(s) is (are) put back in the pool to be allocated to 
	the next customer. This one seems a natural for parallel
	processors. There has to be others.

	Cheers
	
	Harry

