Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 01:45:07 01/15/06
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On January 14, 2006 at 18:28:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >My parallel search is bug-free. I've saved this one for future amusement :) >>Realistically, the SMP mode of most programs is a lot less tested than the >>normal mode, because almost noone used to have a dual machine before the X2 >>arrived. > >I don't buy that at all. I've been teaching parallel programming for many >years. Students had dual-cpu machines 5 years ago. They were not particularly >pricey, other than factoring the extra CPU. I've been running parallel on ICC >since 1996 or so when the first dual-cpu machines started showing up, and my old >quad pentium-pro 200 box was delivered. I think the commercial guys have quad >boxes available for testing all the time... Huu, maybe in your ivory tower where hardware doesn't cost anything this is true. But just look at this forum. Only 2 years ago basically *no-one* had a dual machine. Today a *large* amount of people have X2's. These people run other tests, different configurations than the ones we run, and they *will* find additional bugs if there are. -- GCP
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