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- From: rsaripa@saturn.cs.clemson.edu (Saripalli Ramakrishna)
- Subject: Survey of parallel and distributed systems!.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.121734.5524@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:34:09 GMT
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- Hi,
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- I am trying to find out which of the two systems would most people prefer to use?.
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- 1) Distributed Memory system(Like hypercubes or Heterogenous systems connected by networks)
- 2) Shared Memory system like BBN Butterfly and others ...
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- Which of the above 2 systems would people prefer to use ?.
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- 1) The criteria used to judge the above question would be ,among others ...
- a) Efficiency.
- b) Ease of programming.
- c) Underlying software ( Operating systems and Compilers).
- d) Flexibility
- e) Configuration
- f) cost.
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- and others.
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- I would like people to send me e-mail stating what would be their preference and why?.
- Assume that you are the only user running on the system.
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- I would really appreciate it.
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- Thanks a lot,
- Saripalli Ramakrishna
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- e-mail : rsaripa@cs.clemson.edu
- Man is a beast and usually has no control over his passions.
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