Re: Help in DSM design

From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 04:53:49 EST


On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 04:26:04AM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> DSM isn't nonsense. Porting _is_ easier and computers usually _are_
> cheaper than people. You pulled the "200" and "20" out of thin air;
> it is actually "249" and "243".

You want to buy a $20M computer and then avoid $1M in porting costs and
you don't care about performance. Odd.
Buy a $1M computer, make your code use MPI for $2M, and spend $5M on
fast switches. Lower cost, higher performance. Or buy a real SMP machine
for $20M.

Or maintain DSM outside the base Linux kernel. And God bless you.

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