From: anyrhine@cs.helsinki.fi
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] parallel/distributed computation
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:44:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4721E12F.2030206@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e70b4dc47bad517ff298bd1bbbd258b5@hamnavoe.com>
Richard Miller wrote:
>> it looks to me like it wouldn't work across different architectures.
>> is that a correct reading? maybe this is a usual restriction in
>> this kind of library?
>
> Quite right - homogeneous architectures only. Attempting to cope
> with heterogeneity accounts for some of the complexity (and inefficiency)
> of some other libraries. I would guess that any decently scalable
> parallel machine will be single-architecture (but I haven't surveyed
> the field lately).
the roadrunner.
i don't know if it's decently scalable though :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-26 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-17 14:42 lejatorn
2007-10-17 16:13 ` ron minnich
2007-10-17 16:17 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-17 16:29 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-17 16:39 ` ron minnich
2007-10-26 9:46 ` Richard Miller
2007-10-26 11:32 ` roger peppe
2007-10-26 12:40 ` Richard Miller
2007-10-26 12:44 ` anyrhine [this message]
2007-10-26 15:01 ` ron minnich
2007-10-26 15:04 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-27 5:44 ` ron minnich
2007-10-27 5:53 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-28 15:21 ` Richard Miller
2007-10-18 8:42 ` Randolph Fritz
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