[Beowulf] multi-threading vs. MPI

[Eray Ozkural]

On Dec 9, 2007 9:37 PM, Toon Knapen <toon.knapen at gmail.com> wrote:

> And considering that future processors are even going more extreme in
> the Numa direction (e.g. the Intel 80-core), is'nt it more future-safe
> to go with MPI if one would start a large coding-project now?
>
> thanks for all the reactions,

I think that's a good point. For NUMA obviously MPI is more useful.

Best,

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