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Foil 29 Parallel/Distributed Computing - Communications Characteristics

From HPCC Current Status: Hardware MPP Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
Parallel Computing
Communication - high bandwidth and low latency.
Low flexibility in messages (point-to-point).
Distributed Computing
Communication can be high or low bandwidth.
Latency typically high -- can be very flexible messages involving fault tolerance, sophisticated routing, etc.
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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