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From: James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 10:29:20 +1000
Subject: Re: [OT]: PiCloud - really cool!
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:19 AM, geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was the poster across from them at PyCon two years back. Pretty fun
> to play with, although last I checked it was hard to do true HPC on
> it.

Why's that ? And what is true HPC (High Performance Computing) anyway ?
I find the API provided to be quite simple robust and potentially very
powerful - depending on your application.

cheers
James

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