From: Aamer & Jen Sachedina <aamer@nospam.org>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Future of massively parallel machines?....
Date: 12 Dec 1998 06:08:05 GMT
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> >Massively parallel systems are not showing much signs of breaking
> >into the low end, but it is likely that home computers will have
> >small-scale (say 4- to 8-way) shared memory parellelism within a
> >few years.
> 

I actually think that they are showing up in the low end... I guess
that depends on what we think of as the "low end".

A promising area of note is Relational Databases.  IBM's DB2
Universal Database offers an MPP version which has been
in use by several customers in different cluster sizes.  It also
offers SMP parallelism on a variety of OSes.

-Aamer

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