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- From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
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- Subject: Re: Multiprocessors
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- Date: 12 Dec 92 18:20:02 GMT
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- xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes:
- >Even though a 730 will toast an 8 processor SGI!
-
- Never fear. SGI has promised a machine with 32 R4400's. Of course, HP
- has promised a 16 CPU machine. It's finally about time to multithread
- those codes, folks.
-
- Oddly, although Crays have been multiprocessors for years, a lot of
- programs only use one Cray processor. This is often largely a
- function of incentive. One installation offered a big budget break to
- parallel applications, and sure enough, almost everything suddenly
- turned out to be parallelizable.
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- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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