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Article #10865Re: Multiprocessors
From: Donald Lindsay
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:20
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:20
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xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes: >Even though a 730 will toast an 8 processor SGI! Never fear. SGI has promised a machine with 32 R4400's. Of course, HP has promised a 16 CPU machine. It's finally about time to multithread those codes, folks. Oddly, although Crays have been multiprocessors for years, a lot of programs only use one Cray processor. This is often largely a function of incentive. One installation offered a big budget break to parallel applications, and sure enough, almost everything suddenly turned out to be parallelizable. -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!lindsay From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Multiprocessors Message-ID: <Bz5s9F.J32.2@cs.cmu.edu> Date: 12 Dec 92 18:20:02 GMT Article-I.D.: cs.Bz5s9F.J32.2 References: <FRANL.92Nov25233757@draco.centerline.com> <wilson.723024694@moonshine> <41747@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: gandalf.cs.cmu.edu