kinda, It was cheaper to use fibrechannel/ethernet and plain old sparc/intel machines This was about the time that grid engines promised mainframe computing wi

kinda, It was cheaper to use fibrechannel/ethernet and plain old sparc/intel machines This was about the time that grid engines promised mainframe computing without the cost. Only that it required people to understand how to parallelise their workloads. That and modify programmes to run in on many machines at once.