[comp.hypercube] Parallelism Granularity

ram@sun.com (Renu Raman, Taco-Bell Microsystems) (03/07/88)

    The notion of computational granularity specifically, granularity of
    parallel computation has been defined in very broad terms thus far
    - Coarse & Fine.

    The use of such broad characterizations have given arise some misuse
    and misunderstanding of the respective terms and on the nature
    of computation that is being referred to.  

    Isn't it time we had much finer characterizations rather than the
    two broad (and thus coarse) demarcations?  Leave it to the jury to
    decide and let the moderator be the judge.

    It would be nice to have names like rock, stone, salt, powder to
    identify each level of granularity.

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