Arvind Krishnamurthy, Jeanna Neefe, and Randy Wang
{arvindk,neefe,rywang}@cs.berkeley.edu
A parallel program, much like an elephant, is the organic union of
many complex parts. The
Splash-2 paper,
much like the blind men in the classic
Indian parable,
attempts to picture a complex object by studying its bits and pieces
in isolation. We show in this mini-project
(postscript),
that much like their
ancient blind predecessors, blanket statements made from a few poorly
chosen metrics tend to miss the whole picture and does little to help
the poor architect decide what machine to build to satisfy the needs
of these applications.