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From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Single tasking the wave of the future?
Message-ID: <1944@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 14:22:36 GMT
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In article <18013@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:

>I am continuously amazed at people who, upon learning that I own
>several parallel systems and use them in production work immediately
>remark that they find it interesting, but OF COURSE there are all these
>problems (most of which they themselves don't need solved) which can't
>be parallelized (or not easily.)


      So nobody is forcing them to "parallelize" these problems!  However,
for those areas where we need the help you can utilized this ability.  And
certainly in the future we will get a better handle on how to harness all
of this power in other areas.  One thing that for years I have wanted is
the ability to assign all database processes to specific CPUs.  On a singe
CPU machine a few DB backends combined with other people compiling and editing
can bring a machine to a slow crawl very quickly.


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