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...e can play with the numbers all they want. Shared memory systems (especially NUMA) with their multi-GBps, native interconnects are typically going to be faster at anything that is GbE or FC interconnected. At the same time, lower-cost, clustered systems are competitive *IF* the application scales _linearally_. In this test scenario, the operations were geared towards operations that scale _linearally_. But even then, I think this blogger pointed out some very good data. The reality of the age of the systems in comparison, as well as the "less than commodity" cluster configuration of the PC...