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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: numerics+parallel+G5's
Date: 5 Oct 2005 04:53:34 -0500
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In article <1128504966.909984.72030@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, keld_nielsen_4nulspam@yahoo.it writes:
> Dear All,
> 
> searching the group shows that there has been some activity on
> numerical issues implemented in Ada.
> My question is: Are there still someone out there with a combined
> interest in Ada and numerics - perhaps also in parallel algorithm
> implementations? Any collaborations?
> 
> And by the way, does anybody have hints on how the G5 powerpc cpu works
> with numerics? For instance, the G5 has two FPU's, are they implicitly
> invoked or are there any tricks to apply for accessing both of them
> (leave out the "altivec" unit which is limited to 32 bit)?

It seems to me that would depend on what compiler is used.