RAM for cluster net boot?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On 06 Feb 2008 17:45:14 -0500, Kevin D. Clark <kevin_d_clark at comcast.net> 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
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