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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:24:52 -0600
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From: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] parallel systems
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How many parallel systems you have impelemented?

Thanks,
    Lucho

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net> wrote:
> I think my main points were good.
>
> =A0* can parallelize by duplicating subsystems / divide and conquer
> =A0* can parallelize by pipelining, even down to the arithmetic level
> =A0* latency is limited by Ahmdal's law, potential throughput should not =
be
> =A0* multi-tasking can potentially use close to the full power of a syste=
m
>
> A factory is a parallel system. =A0A car factory can come close to fully
> utilizing thousands of human and robot workers.
>
> I think well-designed parallel systems can efficiently solve many laborio=
us
> computing problems. =A0Invocations of Ahmdal have not convinced me otherw=
ise.
>
> Sam
>
>