[Beowulf] multi-threading vs. MPI

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Mon Dec 10 22:36:03 PST 2007


On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 07:40:15PM -0500, Joe Landman wrote:

> b) the only code that matters is your code (really, this should be 
> everyone's mantra with benchmarking in general).

Well, the problem here is that the question most people are asking is,
"how should I parallelize my code?" This question gets asked before
you know the performance on your code.

So the mantra doesn't help.

-- greg





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