Re: Parallel Processing Progress


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Why has Parallel Processing started to take off in the last few years?
I remember all of the hoopla around 15 or 20 years ago about what an
impact it was going to have. Then interest subsided some what as there
were claims of difficulty with software & programming,

Now it has made a comeback, I have read of near miraculous applications
& it should deliver great advances with AI innovations. So I ask again,
why is it finally starting to work out?

Joel

I well remember that hoopla and the nothing coming of it. Remember also at
that time the aquiring of some small wisdoms that have held good since.
1]All announcements from the AI crowd are worthless and to be ignored.
2]All programmers talk about parallel processing is to be ignored.
3]All mentions by marketing people of 'near miracles' are to be ignored.
4]General purpose parrallel processing is nice to think of but is actually
impossible.

That just leaves what little parallel processing there is, in the realms of
massive number crunching (ie weather forecasts, bomb detonations etc), where
each processor can work happily as one row/column element of a mathematical
matrix.
Nowadays much cheaper and simpler but nothing new!.
john


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