Comments on: Are You Ready for Petascale Computing? https://blog.speculist.com/better_all_the_time/great-lakes-con-1.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: sketerpot https://blog.speculist.com/better_all_the_time/great-lakes-con-1.html#comment-9716 sketerpot Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:01:24 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1692#comment-9716 Stephen: Parallelization of code not written for parallelism is a very hard problem, and not something I expect to see any OS doing in the next ten years.

]]> By: Dennis https://blog.speculist.com/better_all_the_time/great-lakes-con-1.html#comment-9715 Dennis Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:02:09 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1692#comment-9715 I am curious how much better this computer will work compared to the distributed system Boinc.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

This system allows individuals and organizations to donate processing time to research.
My computer runs for the World Community Grid ,which host many problems they are working n, and SETI, which uses the processing to look for intelligent life.
Does anyone here know how they stack up comparably?

]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/better_all_the_time/great-lakes-con-1.html#comment-9714 Stephen Gordon Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:04:30 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1692#comment-9714 100,000 clusters?

Seems like we are going to have to automate the process of coding for more clusters. If the machine has an OS that will do this, then we can just give it a project – not really coded for clusters – and it will divide it up and go to work.

Perhaps that’s exactly what they are doing now… writing an OS that will do that.

It seems likely that once we understand how to write such an OS, we’ll be better able to scale it up for even bigger clusters.

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