From: "hsh2@cov.ac.uk" Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: The Future of Massively Parallel Machines, SIMD or MIMD approach? Date: 12 Dec 1998 06:08:35 GMT Organization: Coventry University Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <74t193$kge$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu Hi, I'm interested in the trend which favour MIMD over SIMD or vice versa, and which approach will likely be used in the year 2000 and beyond. I have looked at a few papers on the MIMD vs. SIMD debate but all seem to move to the economic/ cost side of things. If cost was NOT a factor, which is better? which has or could have the better utilisation of memory and processors, communication, memory coherance and synchronisation... etc.? I'm interested in the architectural benefits rather then the finanical benefits of each approach. I know MIMD and SIMD are broad classifications, but would anyone like to comment? Examples would be useful. Best Regards, H. Ho. hsh2@cov.ac.uk -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel