[mpich-devel] mpi is dying?

[Jeff Hammond]

>> Let's look at
>> http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc/2014/webinar/gtc-express-acoates-webinar.pdf.
>> The author works for Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab.  Baidu is the
>> Chinese Google.  About as Silicon Valley as it gets.
>
> we can find silicon valley using MPI, but it's not widespread.  Another
> instance that comes to mind is this not heavily cited 2007 work from yahoo
> using mpi for indexing:
>
> http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-75416-9_21

True, but the reason it is widespread is not for the reasons that
Dursi states.  The primary reasons are sociological and economic,
rather than technical.

Jeff

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