Dear David,
A good question. I think I can provide some partial answer and the rest may be
given by my friends on the net.
Suppose you are doing a work on simulation --- might be you are simulating a
physical experiment, say of subatomic particles, or say, you are
simulating the construction process of DNA moleculkes, etc. Each of these require VERY
heavy computation and it is seen that most of the algorithms
here are not of very good kind, complexity-wise, if you think of a single processor
machines. However, if your algorithm is developed on parallel or
distributed architecture, then it is known that many such "bad' kind of algorithms
turn out to be good or easy. This calls for distributed or
parallel architectures to be introduced in solving such problems.
I hope the necessity is clear. About these kinds of architectures can
Arup/Indranil or the Gurus of Ilug-Cal help me and David out ?
Thanking you,
Santhosh David wrote:
> Dear members,
>
> i have another doubt too.
>
> 1.Why are workstations(Sun etc...)preferred compared to ordinary PCs for
>simulations??.Do they have any speciality??
>
> 2.Though the speed of ordinary PCs has risen dramtically(2 Ghz)in what area are they
>still slower(or infefficient) compared to the workstations.??
>
> thanks in anticipation
>
> yours sincerely
>
> santhosh david
>
> II M.Sc applied electronics
>
> REC-Tiruchirapalli(www.rect.edu)
>
> India.
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