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> Multicore and distributed computing are unrelated at best. So give them both up and live in a single threaded world? Seems bleak.

• lmm 11y ago
  No, the point is that if you're going to do distributed computing then multicore is a waste of time - you might as well just run one process on each core and treat each core like a separate machine (where some machines happen to have a particularly low-latency/high-bandwidth network connection). You still need a good distributed runtime, but if you believe distributed is the future then multicore is a dead end.
  • duaneb 11y ago
    > if you're going to do distributed computing then multicore is a waste of time Not if you're doing I/O bound work....