Messages in this thread | | | From | (G.W. Wettstein) | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 01:42:25 -0600 | Subject | Re: Lets get this right (WAS RE:MOSIX and kernel mods) |
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On Mar 7, 7:57pm, "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: } Subject: Re: Lets get this right (WAS RE:MOSIX and kernel mods)
> If you have computer time left over, maybe you didn't need to optimize > so much. :-) > > I would be happy to see several DIPC implementations benchmarked > against each other, but it is rather pointless to benchmark DIPC > against something else. Everybody agrees what the result will be. > > I was truly surprised by the DIPC ease-of-use today. The worst part > by far is setting up the new kernel and rebooting. Changes to the > application code are trivial. You could use a perl one-liner for it. > Conversion to MPI is far more complicated.
I didn't include the rest of your post in the interest of keeping the thread manageable but I do appreciate your concerns Albert. You are correct in that it may be difficult to assess exactly what 'excellence' in the kernel is.
I was going to mention this in my previous note but I was worried about length. One of the reasons that we probably have spare cycles available is the somewhat steep learning and development curve associated with parallelizing applications. I certainly understand how seductive an arguement increased developer/programmer efficiency is.
Greg
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