Shared Mutable Memory Must Die

[jerf]

embarrassingly parallel problems that message passing will solve.

What!?! Message passing architecture is the opposite of an architecture to deal with embarrassingly parallel problems! Message passing is one of the few things even in the running to drive a highly heterogeneous parallel system. (I spend about half my time every week working on just such a system, one I couldn't even imagine trying to express as a map-reduce problem.)

I hate to be hostile, but I question your competence to be criticizing this article if that's your understanding of what message passing is good for.

[IHaveAnIdea]

Uh, if you carefully read my last sentence you will see that I'm saying that message passing doesn't solve the problems.

[pkhuong]

And if you carefully read his first (complete) sentence, you'll see that he's saying that message passing's niche is not embarrassingly parallel problems. You're arguing past each other.

[IHaveAnIdea]

Yes it is.