[comp.arch] Uses for shared memory machines?

marshall@alpha.ces.cwru.edu ( ) (04/15/89)

Hello!

   I am taking a graduate class in computer architecture
and we are required to write a term paper. The topic is on comparing
shared-memory multiprocessors with local-memory multiprocessors.

   So far, I have loads of ideas for things to do with local-
memory multiprocessors, but am stumped on the shared-memory
machines. Does anyone out there have ideas for applications
that could get a benifit of running on a shared-memory
multiprocessor?

   Thanks in advance,


   Martin Marshall



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steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson) (04/18/89)

> 
>    Martin Marshall

Ask any physicist who uses a CRAY.

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Department of Computer Science,            (803)656-5880.mabell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906