Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: parallel computing Message-ID: <8283@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 14:40:44 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.8283 Posted: Fri Jul 10 14:40:44 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 14:40:44 EDT References: <8270@amdahl.amdahl.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 15 > ... Future programs, written by future > programmers familiar with parallel algorithms and hardware are > likely to write programs that use parallelism... But *which* *flavor* of parallelism? And how are they going to do this when the languages don't support it in a standard way? And how are the languages going to support it in a standard way when the current machines are all so different from each other that's there practically no common ground? Parallelism is never going to get really popular in programming until there is some vaguely portable way of expressing it, or some utterly overwhelming consensus on the preferred architecture of parallel machines. I am not holding my breath. -- Mars must wait -- we have un- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology finished business on the Moon. {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry