From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA04851; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:04:02 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA05319 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:04:00 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from mta05.btfusion.com (mta05.btfusion.com [62.172.195.14]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gAQJ3x123697; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:03:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from [217.34.50.98] (helo=7p8420j) by mta05.btfusion.com with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 18Gl02-0003de-00; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:03:59 +0000 Message-Id: <4.1.20021126190104.012605e8@pop3.btclick.com> X-Sender: daveb@pophost.tardis.ed.ac.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:04:00 +0000 To: Xavier Leroy , Lauri Alanko From: Dave Berry Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why systhreads? Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20021125110133.A12077@pauillac.inria.fr> References: <20021123090806.GA633@la.iki.fi> <20021123090806.GA633@la.iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk At 11:01 25/11/2002, Xavier Leroy wrote: >For large >parallel computations, clusters (distributed-memory systems) are the >norm. I think this is an exaggeration. I've just started work at the UK National e-Science Centre, which is linked to the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. We have several new multiprocessor machines (16 processors, 64 processors, etc.), and there doesn't seem to be a shortage of uses for them. Dave. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners