datajerk wrote:
On Aug 12, 2:48 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:Bill Buckels wrote:"Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:For everyone who doesn't see why you posted something, there are likely one or two others who are glad to see it.;-)...NadaNet 3.0 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/NadaNet 3.0. Bravo! Given that my day job is high performance computing, I got quite a chuckle out of that. Got a cc65 or Aztec C MPI too? :-)
MPI is pretty heavyweight for an Apple II--both in complexity and in required resources. ;-) The operations provided seem appropriate for a polled network on a non-multiprogrammed machine. Making the machine-to-machine interactions much more general would require a lot more resources than letting the programmer think about it and plan it out for the specific application. ;-) As it stands, there is no NadaNet activity that is not explicitly specified by the programmer, which seems like a good starting point. -michael NadaNet 3.0 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."