Re: RAM for cluster net boot?

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On 06 Feb 2008 17:45:14 -0500, Kevin D. Clark <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Of course, "usable" does not imply "this given DSM subsystem has such 
> good performance that you can just use all memory as if it was local". 
> In my experience, this fact has some pretty serious implications: in 
> order to get even so-so performance, you have tune your code a lot. 
> Really, a *lot*.  This is either (1) hard or (2) fantastically hard. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law

> Those Google guys mad skillz with MapReduce tell me that they are very 
> smart and very practical... 

Yup :-) 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
"Know something about everything and everything about something." 

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