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Article #2735Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
From: Jan Vorbrueggen
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1989 03:14
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1989 03:14
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In article <10200@venera.isi.edu> rod@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III) writes: >In article <490@ctycal.UUCP> ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby) writes: >> ... I am saying >>that the notion of a general purpose massively parallel architecture that >>efficiently executes all kinds of algorithms is probably a naive and >>simplistic view of the world. >Depends on how you classify "all" algorithms. Nary a machine ever made >is good at every algorithm ever invented. I learned in school that it is hard to write a good numerical algorithm (e.g., to solve differential equations), but fairly easy to find an example which makes it stand in the rain. Maybe the same applies to building computers :-) Rolf
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!bufo.usc.edu!vorbrueg From: vorbrueg@bufo.usc.edu (Jan Vorbrueggen) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS Message-ID: <20708@usc.edu> Date: 21 Oct 89 03:14:45 GMT References: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1081@m3.mfci.UUCP> <MCCALPIN.89Oct16141656@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu> <490@ctycal.UUCP> <10200@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: wuertz@bufo.usc.edu (Rolf Wuertz) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 17