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From: "Vinzent Hoefler" <0439279208b62c95f1880bf0f8776eeb@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: Need some light on using Ada or not
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:26:18 +0100
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Pascal Obry wrote:

>> My preferred plan B would link to MPI, which distributes mpi-tasks
>> over the available cores.  I don't know if that will work either!
>
> That won't be better. MPI is for non shared memory used in clusters.

Sure?

I may remember the MPI-Spec wrong, but parallelizing for-loops on a
cluster do not seem a very efficient way and that was at least one of
the things the specification described. And MPI was generally designed
as (C-)compiler extension, so clusters do not seem an appropriate target
neither.


Vinzent.

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