[Beowulf] Using Autoparallel compilers or Multi-Threaded libraries with MPI

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Mon Dec 3 13:57:53 PST 2007


On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:47:41PM +0000, richard.walsh at comcast.net wrote:

> I think that the number of real-world apps in this class is perhaps
> not large, or there would be more hybrid code.

Ah, but you've missed the random element here: People start writing
hybrid code before they have any proof that it helps them. Or they
don't write it at all because they know it's complicated. Either way,
you can't assume cause and effect of "hybrid helps me" and "my code
is hybrid".

-- greg





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