Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Subject: Re: SMP vs. MPP
Organization: IDA Center for Communications Research, Princeton
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:14:48 GMT
Message-ID: <3et4h3$ol8@runner.ccr-p.ida.org>

Mark Rosenbaum <mjr@netcom.com> writes:
> Finally the $64K question. Does anyone have an algorithm that 
> a) actually users writable shared memory for anything other than locks.
> b) is faster than other algorithms that don't.

I'm not sure I understand the question.  Generally programs, not
algorithms, use shared memory.  But anyway, on the Cray T3D writing into
remote shared memory is generally the fastest method of communication.
So it gets used a lot.

                                        David desJardins
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