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Indeed, there are problems that cannot be solved in a parallel fashion. If you are stuck with such a problem you are screwed no matter what is your architecture
by pandaman 13y ago
Indeed, there are problems that cannot be solved in a parallel fashion. If you are stuck with such a problem you are screwed no matter what is your architecture.
A whole lot of real-life stuff is either parallel or does not need heavy computing. This is why people started building massively parallel computers well before the last 6 years[0].
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing
- weland 13y ago> A whole lot of real-life stuff is either parallel or does not need heavy computing. This is why people started building massively parallel computers well before the last 6 years[0]. Exactly. A lot of the GPGPU pitch is easily refuted with some hindsight.