From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3911FBBAF for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:23:20 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ag0BAI2qdUjUnw7WfGdsb2JhbACCOZAjAQELBQYJEQOeOQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,338,1212357600"; d="scan'208";a="12999186" Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net ([212.159.14.214]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 10 Jul 2008 15:23:19 +0200 Received: from [90.192.139.4] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtpa (Exim) id 1KGw7D-0006Pr-36 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:23:19 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] thousands of CPU cores Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:21:49 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807101421.50006.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 2049f57218a8b8767cf81c322a5a52f2 X-Spam: no; 0.00; parallelism:01 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 primitives:01 concurrent:04 distributed:05 fails:05 shared:06 thousands:91 memory:09 incidentally:10 ltd:87 systems:12 products:86 On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:57:44 J C wrote: > ...many-core shared-memory systems...OpenMP-style primitives... Incidentally, MP is good for distributed parallelism but fails to take advantage of shared memory (with a concurrent GC). -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e