On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:54:37AM -0700, Massimiliano Fatica wrote: > If you are old enough to remember the time when the first distribute > computers appeared on the scene, > this is a deja-vu.
Not to mention the prior appearance of array processors. Oil+Gas bought a lot of those, too. Some important radio astronomy data reduction algorithms were coded for them -- a VAX 11/780+FPS AP120B was 10X faster than the VAX by itself. Then microprocessor-based workstations arrived, and the game was over, ease of use FTW. > Even on a single system, if you try an auto-parallel/auto-vectorizing > compiler on a real code, your results will probably be disappointing. The wins from such compilers have been steadily decreasing, as main memory gets farther and farther away from the CPU and caches. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
