Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!xylogics!linus!bs From: bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code Message-ID: <103389@linus.UUCP> Date: 19 Mar 90 19:07:51 GMT References: <51771@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <100598@convex.convex.com> <52661@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <798@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> Reply-To: bs@faron.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA Lines: 32 In article <798@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes: :brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes: : :>You will be completely shocked to see how :>low the processor utilization of single user work stations are. The :>small size of the utilization factor completely negates the cost performance :>edge of the Killer Micro inside it. : :This is quite correct, and therefore we should stop using personal :automobiles, too. Instead we should use taxis, car pools, and :other forms of better sharing the same basic hardware. This will :increase the <10% utilization of most cars. : :OK, ob. smiley. Yes, we like having our own cars, and we like having :our own local source of computation, and we're going to continue :to choose this whenever we have a choice. It's a fact of life. I invite everyone to read the following paper: Robert Silverman & Sidney Stuart "A Network Batching System for Parallel Processing" Software Practice & Experience Vol 19, #12, pp. 1163-1174 We describe a system that allowed us to soak up all the excess processing time on a SUN network, while not impairing the interactive use of workstations. -- Bob Silverman #include Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 "You can lead a horse's ass to knowledge, but you can't make him think"