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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Hugo Ferreira <hmf@inescporto.pt>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Shared memory parallel application: kernel threads
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:10:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100313151039.GA16796@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9BA14F.2030805@inescporto.pt>

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:29:35PM +0000, Hugo Ferreira wrote:
> I will be using a single 8-CPU machine for the experiments.
> For the problem at hand shared the memory model seems to be
> a better fit than messaging.

I've not actually tried it, but I bet you can use a hybrid model --
Use MPI as an easy way to spread the jobs over the nodes and for
coordinating the processes, then have each process open a shared
Ancient file (backed by NFS) for the read-only data.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-13 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-12 11:55 Hugo Ferreira
2010-03-12 12:34 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2010-03-12 13:36   ` Hugo Ferreira
2010-03-12 14:30 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-03-12 14:54   ` [Caml-list] " Hugo Ferreira
2010-03-12 23:59     ` Philippe Wang
2010-03-13  9:12       ` Hugo Ferreira
2010-03-13 13:56 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2010-03-13 14:29   ` Hugo Ferreira
2010-03-13 15:10     ` Richard Jones [this message]
2010-03-13 15:37       ` Hugo Ferreira

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