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by reeses 4823 days ago
"MIMD hasn't been shown to scale, and its not locking that is the problem, but I/O and memory."

We're going to have to disagree on this one, as we have some obvious examples in favor of MIMD scaling on the TOPS 500. SIMD is just a tool for a subset of parallelizable problems.