Ted, On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 12:39 -0800, Ted Dunning wrote: > I know that this isn't where you are going with your comment, but I think it > actually meets the spirit of what you are trying to do, just in a more > revolutionary way than you specify.
Yes and no, but that is a debate for elsewhere :-) > There is already an Apache project to "avoid shared memory to make > application that exploit parallelism easier". That is Hadoop (especially > with Pig). Certainly Hadoop has a place -- it implements a scatter/gather framework. However that is just one architectural tool, not all problems are amenable to a straightforward scatter/gather. > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Russel Winder <russel.win...@concertant.com > > wrote: > > > At the heart of all the problems is shared memory. Perhaps it is worth > > challenging the use of shared memory models for application programming; > > perhaps it is worth building new APIs that avoid shared memory in order > > to make application that exploit parallelism easier for the average > > programmer to write. -- Russel. ==================================================== Dr Russel Winder Partner Concertant LLP t: +44 20 7585 2200, +44 20 7193 9203 41 Buckmaster Road, f: +44 8700 516 084 London SW11 1EN, UK. m: +44 7770 465 077
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