[rescue] Alpha/Sparc/NeXT/SGI to donate/sell

[joshua d boyd]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:08:01PM -0500, Reagen B . Ward wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:03:03PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> This may sound stupid, but the hardest part is getting folks to
> understand that many jobs don't parallelize well.  Then they have to
> learn how to parallelize their code for a distributed memory system like
> PVM.  Some of the more interesting jobs don't fit a distributed memory model
> well at all.

Oh, so I'm just lucky that so far I've never need distributed and shared
memory at the same time.  So far, all my parellizing has just been for UI
responsiveness, or things that are appalingly simple.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd