On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:57:08AM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > First, shared memory is nice and simple as a programming model.
Uhuh. You know, there are some studies going where students learning parallel programming do the same algorithm with MPI and with shared memory. Would you like to make a bet as to whether they found shared memory much easier? > In the implementation, it > might be taught about multi-core, and optimizing communication within > boxes via shm sockets, and between boxes by other methods. I think a > few of the MPI toolkits do this today (Scali, Intel, OpenMPI, ...). "a few" should be "almost all". -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
