17 Jul
1998
17 Jul
'98
9:38 a.m.
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Communication channel limitations aside, isn't the
computational increase
supposed to be exponential, rather than simply geometrical (or is that
arithmatical?)
No, I think an exponential (or geometrical) increase would violate a law
of thermodynamics :-) The best you can ever hope for is a linear increase
with the number of processors, but nobody even gets that.
-- Doug