On Wed Oct 28 15:09:54 EDT 2009, s...@nipl.net wrote: > I think my main points were good. > > * can parallelize by duplicating subsystems / divide and conquer > * can parallelize by pipelining, even down to the arithmetic level > * latency is limited by Ahmdal's law, potential throughput should not be > * multi-tasking can potentially use close to the full power of a system > > A factory is a parallel system. A car factory can come close to fully > utilizing thousands of human and robot workers. > > I think well-designed parallel systems can efficiently solve many laborious > computing problems. Invocations of Ahmdal have not convinced me otherwise.
i think this thread is not useful. your arguments aren't convincing to the rest of us and vice versa. let's agree to disagree. - erik
