Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: massive parallelism, was  CDC 6600 and TI ASC
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.175939.14312@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1991 17:59:39 GMT
References: <45252@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Mar7.215545.430@zoo.toronto.edu> <LAMSON.91Mar7181743@el1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <LAMSON.91Mar7181743@el1.crd.ge.com> lamson@el1.crd.ge.com (scott h lamson) writes:
>Given this line of reasoning, how do you look at massive parallel ala
>the connection machine? ...

My impression -- beware that it's an area I'm not really up on --
is that CM buyers are more or less aware that they're going to have to
revise their software to exploit the thing.  Buyers of "main line" supers
want their dusty decks to run well, if not optimally, right away.  The
question is how many CM buyers there are, given that constraint.
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"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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