[Beowulf] [OT] MPI-haters

[John Hearns]

> - either magically inside the compiler and or explicitly via source syntax sugar.. However, resolving them is only half the battle
> - keep it all high performance is the other half. (reducing data
> movement/locality) so lets not mistake salt for sugar..


Disclaimer - I am not a chemist.
How WOULD one separate salt from sugar?  Let's have some inventive ideas.
Forgive me of this is in Chemistry 101 and is an easy undergraduate problem.

Both are water soluble, so there is no point in dissolving one and filtering out the solid part.
Is there a solute which acts on sugar but not on salt  (let's say common table salt and sucrose crystals for arguments sake).

Or do we ned a sophisticated Rube Goldberg machine which sends drops a stream of single crystals through a laser scanner
which is then followed by an ultrafast air-blast kicker to sort the crystals into separate hoppers.


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