[Beowulf] RE: programming multicore clusters

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Fri Jun 15 06:24:05 PDT 2007


On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:17:16PM +0200, Toon Knapen wrote:

> Because of everybody going multi-core, everybody is pushing to go 
> multi-threading to exploit these architectures (e.g. the gaming-world 
> and many more). IIUC you're saying that MPI might better exploit these 
> architectures? Interesting POV!

Why "interesting"? Do you disagree that message-passing is the way to
go, since shared memory doesn't scale?

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