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From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Shared memory parallel application: kernel threads
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:30:12 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhpkjvk.6e8.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9A2BCB.3040607@inescporto.pt>

On 12-03-2010, Hugo Ferreira <hmf@inescporto.pt> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have opted to use "kernel-level threads" that allow use
> of the (multi-core) processors but still allow "easy"
> access to shared memory".
>
> I have done a cursory look at:
> - Ocaml.Threads
> - Ocaml.Unix (LinuxThreads)
> - coThreads
> - Ocamlnet2/3 (netshm, netcamlbox)
> (An eThreads library exists in the forge but I did not examine this)
>

I think you should also have a look at ocaml/mpi for communication:
http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocamlmpi/
and ancient for accessing read-only memory:
http://merjis.com/developers/ancient

MPI can work on a single computer to take advantage of multi-core
through multi-processus.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-12 14:30 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 [this message]
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
2010-03-13 15:37       ` Hugo Ferreira

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