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From: stein@dhw68k.cts.com (Rick Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
Message-ID: <27203@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 21 Oct 89 17:01:38 GMT
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In article <220@dg.dg.com> chris@dg.dg.com (Chris Moriondo) writes:
>In article <35977@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes:
>While message passing multicomputers maximize programmer effort in the sense
>that they don't lend themselves to "dusty deck" programs, they have the
>advantage that the interconnect costs scale linearly with the size machine.
Indeed, the "dusty deck" (aka toxic waste dump) is generally not organized
to exploit the linear scalable potential of the multicomputer.  To my
knowledge, no university in the U.S. teaches how to create linear scalable
software, the cornerstone of multicomputers.  Until the shared-memory
s/w engineering styles are abandonded, no real progress in multicomputing
can begin (at least in this country).  Europe and Japan are pressing on
without (despite us).>
>chrism
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Richard M. Stein (aka, Rick 'Transputer' Stein)
Sole proprietor of Rick's Software Toxic Waste Dump and Kitty Litter Co.
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