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From: lee@pipe.cs.wisc.edu (Soo Lee)
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Subject: Re: Parallel Make
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Date: 9 Jun 91 14:37:54 GMT
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In article <bq5Hy#*q@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>Does anyone have a parallel make program running on the NeXT?  I have
>a lab full of NeXT's that I want to put to use :-).  By my
>calculations, the 040 NeXT runs a little more than 1/2 as fast as our
>$10,000,000 IBM 3090 when compiling programs(compared standard C
>programs).  So, if I get two or three machines running together, I
>should be in good shape.
>
>-Mike

Distributed processing questions have been issused based on the number of
processors rather than communication between task partitioned. This is not
quite correct without considering communication bottleneck. In case of MIMD
configuaration, raw performance is normally limited by the communication
bottleneck. In this case, ethernet has only 1MB/sec sustained transfer rate.

Soo	lee@cs.wisc.edu