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From: gdheinze@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Gerhard Heinzel )
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Subject: Re: Is message passing more efficient than shared mem ?
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Date: 19 Dec 90 18:53:11 GMT
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My intention in posting this reference was to generate interest in the
paper. Therefore I did not summarize it but gave an (exaggerated) impression
of what I read from it.
Let me just correct a few misunderstandings:
- the authors do not state that message passing is better in all cases, 
  instead they suggest, more studies are done on this subject
- they experimented with two different parallel machines an two sample
  problems of (numerical) parallel problems (one of which was matrix 
  multiplication)


Gerhard