Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!eugene From: eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: Ease of programming versus efficiency Message-ID: <13215@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 20 Feb 91 17:31:44 GMT References: <13066@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu Reply-To: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Lines: 6 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu Apparently-To: comp-parallel@ames.arc.nasa.gov Call this "computational 'break-even.'" Parallel processing is like controlled thermonuclear fusion......... --e. nobuo miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene AMERICA: CHANGE IT OR LOSE IT.