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I never can get enough stories about Richard Feynman. I thought I'd heard them all, but somehow I missed this one. It's well written and captures many of the things he worked on later in his life; not to mention it's a really cool article about the beginnings of a rather ambitious project to make a parallel computer in the early 1980s.

It's there. The latency tables show the standard deviation, as well as the maximum latency.

Honest benchmarks. Open and gracious group of developers behind it. Disclaimer - I'm married to one of these guys. I'm not a programmer, but I can see how hard this group has worked to provide something useful to the community and I've enjoyed watching it grow.