Reducing l
•Reducing l
requires good engineering and some clever programming
•NYU’s
Ultracomputer Group tried both using 2-3 very slick ideas
•Though
they were ultimately unsuccessful, the approach stands as a fair test of a
true shared
memory parallel system
J.T. Schwartz, Ultracomputers, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and
Systems 2(4):484-521,
1980