From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] parallel/distributed computation
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:40:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e70b4dc47bad517ff298bd1bbbd258b5@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370710260432k20fd0ab1s57ea75035de840c2@mail.gmail.com>
> 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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-26 12:40 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 [this message]
2007-10-26 12:44 ` anyrhine
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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