On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Hao Zheng wrote: > for the 4th question, maybe we can still gain some speedups on > multi-machine clusters. But I suspect that we should also explicitly > consider the communication cost, which is non-trivial in such setting. > What do you think?
I agree with you. I could imagine that it is not as easy as for a multi-core machine to get a correct result. There should be variables like amount of information sent over the network, latency of the network, bandwidth and the like... Isabel -- Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development. |\ _,,,---,,_ Web: <http://www.isabel-drost.de> /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) (fL) IM: <xmpp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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