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Dr. Adrian Wrigley a �crit :

> If all the parallelism your hardware has is a few threads then all you
> need to code for is tasks.  If you want to be able to target FPGAs,
> million-thread CPUs, ASICs and loosely coupled processor networks,
> the Ada task model alone serves very poorly.

Granted. I was talking about traditional hardware where OpenMP is used
and I do not find this solution convincing in this context. It is true
that for massively parallel hardwares things are different. But AFAIK
massively parallel hardwares (like IBM Blue Gene) all come with a
different flavor of parallelism, I don't know if it is possible to have
a model to fit them all... I'm no expert on those anyway.

Pascal.

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