Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Daniel Pfenniger <Daniel.Pfenniger@obs.unige.ch>
Subject: NESL
Organization: Geneva Observatory,  University of Geneva
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 20:25:57 +0200
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Has anybody experience with NESL?
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html)
I find the idea of nested parallelism interesting but I guess
that for some applications such a "basic" recursive approache might 
degrade performance significantly.

The simplicity of coding parallel algorithms is however attractive
(a quicksort algorithm is coded in ten lines with NESL in comparison 
of 1700 with MPI).

Daniel