On 3/15/19 3:35 AM, Benjamin Redling wrote:
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
Wow. That article is completely misguided. MPI doesn't work for data
analytics and genomics because those are completely different problem
types from what MPI was designed for. He's comparing apples to cats.
--
Prentice
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