On 15.03.19 06:28, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > I think what I was getting at is why not include the current HPC practices to > every day desktops in the sense since we are reaching certain limits and have > to write code to take advantage of more and more cores. Why not use MPI and > the like to help distribute the software side of things to the cores? > > It could be my entire concept of MPI is way of or im misunderstanding > completely how it works.
Not my opinion -- I have none regarding MPI -- and one doesn't have to agree with the following article, but it gives a glimpse at what seem to be the weaknesses of MPI: https://www.dursi.ca/post/hpc-is-dying-and-mpi-is-killing-it.html Regards, Benjamin -- FSU Jena | JULIELab.de/Staff/Redling ☎ +49 3641 9 44323 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
