Dan Nagle wrote:
> Not speaking for Van
>
> HPF- Great for some problems, OK for some, but it's impossible
> to manage the communications overhead
Add to that, HPF is not very good for irregular problems, for example adaptively
refined or unstructured grids
>
> Peter Shenkin wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Van,
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Van Snyder wrote:
> >
> > > We're interested to use Fortran 95 with a Beowulf cluster. We're not
> > > excited about OpenMP or HPF or explicit MPI.
> >
> > Just curious: can you say why you're not into each of the above?
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William F. Mitchell
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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