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From: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: chewing up mips with graphics [parallel computing]
Message-ID: <351@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 15:04:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: astroatc.351
Posted: Thu Jul  9 15:04:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 06:47:46 EDT
References: <8270@amdahl.amdahl.com> <359@rocky2.UUCP> <338@astroatc.UUCP> <350@astroatc.UUCP> <1716@umn-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale)
Organization: Astronautics Technology Cntr, Madison, WI
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Keywords: parrallel computing; performance; vector computing

In article <1716@umn-cs.UUCP> herndon@umn-cs.UUCP (Robert Herndon) writes:
>In article <350@astroatc.UUCP>, I wrote stuff I deleted
>> In article <1683@umn-cs.UUCP> herndon@umn-cs.UUCP wrote more deleted stuff
>  There will be a learning curve, like the learning curve for
>high level languages.  
>..., but I don't see too many people arguing that
>HLLs are a mistake.

Well put!  (Sorry if i sounded like I was I high-simmer.)
Parallelism is the growing outlook for the current future.  By the
time it fully arrive, something newer may be replacing it.

I just read/hear too much from those who think it will be an
instant cure for all our current problems.

I fully argree that many of the results will justify there cost
and time!  (I just don't expect to see it all by tomorrow.)

In terms of the Karp challenge, can the Mealy machine do
a 100 fold increase given normal lenght tokens, or are we talking
more like 10 to 20 ??


			John W

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