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Article #2812Re: parallel systems
From: William Tsun-Yuk Hsu
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 21:06
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 21:06
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In article <6655@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Also, the job of programming a shared memory system is a lot harder than >programming a system with messages as the communication medium. Umm, have you tried? When I took a parallel programming class a couple years ago, everybody griped about the problems of coding Gaussian elimination for the hypercube. Hardly anybody griped about implementing it for the Sequent balance. (This single example of course doesn't prove anything, but I would like to see some examples of problems that are clearly easier to code for a message-passing system.) Bill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!hsu From: hsu@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: parallel systems Message-ID: <1989Oct24.210602.2616@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 24 Oct 89 21:06:02 GMT References: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <20336@princeton.Princeton.EDU> <7651@bunny.GTE.COM> <1989Oct23.152120.25967@cs.rochester.edu> <6655@ficc.uu.net> Sender: paul@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes) Reply-To: hsu@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu) Organization: Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, Univ. of Illinois Lines: 15