Re: [computer-go] MPI vs. threads

2007-06-29 Thread Eduardo Sabbatella
MPI vs Threads, MPI can be as quick as threads. Only if the comunication between processing units (threads, or mpi process), is 0. Speed: disk mpi shared memory cache Bare MCGO (no UCT, nothing) can be 99.999% efficient. Because It doesn't need inter-process communications. A master

Re: [computer-go] MPI vs. threads

2007-06-28 Thread David Doshay
On 28, Jun 2007, at 8:44 PM, Jason House wrote: Darren Cook wrote: Can MPI be as quick as threads on a 2- or 4-core single machine? no, but I think you are worried about something that is such a a small percentage of compute time that I doubt that it is significant for a Go program. I