From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] parallel systems
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:22:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <70aa8091f776543f4220068744897852@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<20091028190823.GA2378@nipl.net>>
On Wed Oct 28 15:09:54 EDT 2009, sam@nipl.net wrote:
> I think my main points were good.
>
> * can parallelize by duplicating subsystems / divide and conquer
> * can parallelize by pipelining, even down to the arithmetic level
> * latency is limited by Ahmdal's law, potential throughput should not be
> * multi-tasking can potentially use close to the full power of a system
>
> A factory is a parallel system. A car factory can come close to fully
> utilizing thousands of human and robot workers.
>
> I think well-designed parallel systems can efficiently solve many laborious
> computing problems. Invocations of Ahmdal have not convinced me otherwise.
i think this thread is not useful. your arguments aren't
convincing to the rest of us and vice versa. let's agree
to disagree.
- erik
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<20091028190823.GA2378@nipl.net>
2009-10-28 20:22 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-10-28 19:08 Sam Watkins
2009-10-28 19:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-10-28 19:32 ` Jack Norton
2009-10-28 19:56 ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-28 20:27 ` W B Hacker
2009-10-28 20:24 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-10-28 20:43 ` ron minnich
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