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Subject: Re: The Tobacco fields of my youth -- Parallel algorithms

Author: Charles Roberson

Date: 14:04:23 02/26/04

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On February 26, 2004 at 12:06:10, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>On February 26, 2004 at 11:18:07, Charles Roberson wrote:
>
>>

>>     The second algorithm reminds me of Bob's paper on DTS or any other work
>>     stealing approach.
>
>I don't think DTS really suggested a split strategy (other than split at ALL
>nodes if possible).  Bob's paper is more, "how can we design a parallel
>structure so that we can split anywhere in the tree".  Once you have a working
>DTS implementation, you can split however you want . . .
>
>anthony

   Work stealing algorithms typically try to reduce the overhead of finding a
  processor that needs help by assigning the free processor to the one the has
  the most work left to do. I see Bob's work as help for work stealing
  algorithms.




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