From: Yoann Padioleau <Yoann.Padioleau@emn.fr>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: Jacques Carette <carette@mcmaster.ca>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Regarding SMP computing
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:57:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lko7g1mm.fsf@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060925194153.GA20467@furbychan.cocan.org> (Richard Jones's message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:41:53 +0100")
Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:13:50AM -0400, Jacques Carette wrote:
>> Over on Haskell-cafe, Simon Peyton-Jones says:
>> "GHC 6.6 (release candidate available) supports parallel execution on
>> SMP machines.
>>
>> Garbage collection is not parallelised yet, something we plan to fix
>> this autumn."
>>
>> A bit of competition is a good thing, isn't it?
>
> Can someone explain how/if this is better than using MPI for
> parallelism? The reason I ask is that we are starting to use MPI for
> real on SMP machines to process our larger datasets.
I guess that with a working shared-memory SMP support, you
don't pay the communication cost you have with MPI.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-25 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-25 12:13 Jacques Carette
2006-09-25 13:40 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-09-25 19:41 ` Richard Jones
2006-09-25 19:57 ` Yoann Padioleau [this message]
2006-09-27 21:10 ` David M. Cooke
2006-09-26 11:57 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2006-09-26 14:37 ` Markus Mottl
2006-09-26 14:52 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2006-09-26 15:46 ` Markus Mottl
2006-09-26 15:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2006-09-26 18:56 ` Richard Jones
2006-09-27 12:14 ` Richard Jones
2006-09-27 16:05 ` Richard Jones
2006-09-27 17:35 ` [Caml-list] out-of-heap data structures [was: Regarding SMP computing] Xavier Leroy
2006-09-26 1:41 [Caml-list] Regarding SMP computing Jonathan T Bryant
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