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- From: enbody@ss33.cps.msu.edu (Richard Enbody)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Could I compete the low-end CM5 with multiple SPARCstations?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.191250.8476@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:12:50 GMT
- References: <9207221613.AA05637@x1sun6.ccl.itri.org.tw>
- Sender: enbody@ss33.cps.msu.edu (Dr Richard Enbody)
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
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- In article <9207221613.AA05637@x1sun6.ccl.itri.org.tw>, lycmit@X1SUN6.CCL.ITRI.ORG.TW (Yin-Chih Lin) writes:
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- |> I am curious, if I connect 32 SPARCstation 10 model 30 (33MHz, SuperSPARC
- |> module with 86.1 MIPS - Sun Micro adverted!?) computers (loosely-coupled
- |> MIMD multicomputers?) either by Ethernet, ISDN or FDDI with the multi-
- |> thread OS and might use facilities from Linda-like distributed data
- |> structures. Is it possible for me to obtain the reasonable performance
- |> when compared with the 32-node TMC CM5 (SIMD machine)?
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- Greatly simplified response:
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- The difference is communication latency. For many, but certainly not all,
- applications that could kill you.
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- -rich
- enbody@cps.msu.edu
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