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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory ordering
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:02:58 -0700
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On 7/29/2024 1:04 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 7/29/2024 6:21 AM, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> communication between the cores
> 
> Communication between cores should be reduced down to its bare minimum! 
> Try to _strive_ to gain an embarrassingly parallel scheme, if possible. 
> If it MUST be done wrt "communication between the cores". Well, it 
> better be using highly efficient algorithms to get the job done... Fair 
> enough?

Therefore, we strive to reduce the inter/intra core/node communication 
down to zero. If and only if we NEED to communicate with another 
core/node then we can tag them as special, make a list and ponder on it.

Fair enough?