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

[richard.walsh at comcast.net]

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From: Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> 

> 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". 
True, enough ... one must consider both the kinetic and thermodynamic requirements for existence, but I was thinking that the system was perhaps at equilibrium by now.  Still, it was careless of me to use non-existence to argue for either the absense of cause or presence of impossibility.  I am still waiting to get a straight flush in 5-card draw.
;-)
rbw
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