29 May
2011
29 May
'11
1:59 p.m.
On 29 May 2011 at 16:36, Dave McGuire wrote:
Well, *some* problems. Nobody in the game (well,
nobody who knew
what they were talking about) was ever under any illusions that all
problems could effectively map to a massively parallel system.
I think (but can't remember for certain) that it was Neil Lincoln who
compared massively parallel processors to using nine women to get a
baby in one month.
Some problems just don't parallelize well...
--Chuck