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From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: A question about run time binding.
Message-ID: <873@lupine.NCD.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 90 01:31:00 GMT
References: <1249@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA
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In article <1249@idunno.Princeton.EDU> ssr@taylor.Princeton.EDU (Steve S. Roy) writes:
>
>This came up writing a code that needs to do a possibly remote
>procedure call as efficiently as possible in a Hypercube.  There is a
>network of "nodes" which do computation and talk to other "nodes"
>across "links".

Hummm.... Sounds like your basic generic description of your basic generic
loosely-coupled multiprocessor.

If you want to see how at least one group has used (and extended) the C++
language to do some really clever things in a loosely-coupled multiprocessor
environment, I suggest that you call MCC in Austin Texas and ask to speak
to the ES-kit project secretary (Marquita Wanslow).  Ask her to send you
the papers that deal with the software design of the ES-kit project.

P.S.  The ES-kit hardware design is pretty interesting too.

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// Ron Guilmette (rfg@ncd.com)
// C++ Entomologist
// Motto:  If it sticks, force it.  If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.