[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Dave McGuire]

On June 24, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > I've referred you to various
> > repositories of information.  
> 
> You've referred me to nothing.  You've made nebulous statements.  OK in
> a later post (later than the one that I was replying to before) you made
> some meek effort to point to someone else's book on parallel computing
> theory when it had no relevance to the discussion at hand.

  By the way, I have to take special exception to this.  The book I
mentioned most definitely is NOT a book on "parallel computing
theory".  It's about parallelism in computer architecture, be it at
the bit level (even your crappy Intel processor handles 32 bits at a
time, that's parallelism within a uniprocessor system) all the way up
to multiprocessor computer systems.  While it does contain some
theory, it mostly consists of case studies and analyses. (I generally
do practice over theory) I assure you that it was ABSOLUTELY relevant
to our discussion at the time; I don't suggest that you disagree until
you've read it.

  To recap, this was when you suggested that, since a few dozen labs and
colleges have built big Linux clusters, rooms full of cheap PeeCees
will obviously replace all of the powerful computers in the world.

          -Dave

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