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- From: kumar@moose.cs.umn.edu (Vipin Kumar)
- Subject: Re: JPDC Special Issue on Scalability
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.132526.15104@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Keywords: scalability, large-scale parallel computers, analysis
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- References: <1992Nov12.130946.1814@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Nov13.125108.20317@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:35:52 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- In <1992Nov13.125108.20317@hubcap.clemson.edu> "Dennis Gannon" <gannon@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
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- >Vipin,
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- >I am shocked. For your special issue you have called for:
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- >>The objective of this special issue is to bring together the research
- >>done by theoreticians, architecture designers and application developers
- >>on scalability analysis of large-scale parallel systems.
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- >When are you going to get the picture that an essential key to progress
- >in this area is in Software, i.e. Compilers, the O.S. and Performance Analysis!
- >Yet you seem to see their input as not important. I wish you good luck
- >on getting REAL scalabilty with out help from these people.
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- >Your friend,
- >Dennis Gannon
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- Dennise,
- It was not my intent to exclude scalability issues in software for
- large-scale parallel systems. Thanks for pointing out this oversight.
- I will include it explicitly in the next announcement.
-
- Vipin
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