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

Gerry Creager gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Mon Dec 3 14:18:46 PST 2007


Greg Lindahl wrote:
> 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".

Or their code turns out to be 'hybrid' because they didn't really know 
what they were writing...

gerry
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