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From: gdheinze@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Gerhard Heinzel )
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Subject: Is message passing more efficient than shared mem ?
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Date: 17 Dec 90 13:55:51 GMT
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In the Proceedings of the ICPP 1990 I found a very interesting paper suggesting
that programs based on message passing are more efficient than those based on 
shared memory - even on shared memory architectures. The authors were very 
cautious about their results and suggested a broader study with more machine 
types and programs.

Is anyone working on this ? Are there any intermediate results yet ?

Looking forward for a fruitful discussion, Yours

Gerhard Heinzel

P.S.: the reference:

%z InProceedings
%K
%A Calvin Lin
%A Lawrence Snyder
%T A Comparison of Programming Models for Shared Memory Multiprocessors
%C International Conference on Parallel Processing 1990
%c 1990
%V II
%P 163 170