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


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