Re: a multicore XMOS CPU

[KarlNyberg <karl@grebyn.com>]

On Feb 15, 8:10 am, Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Glos...@ACM.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Darek Maksimiuk sent:
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> |I am willing to dedicate some of my free time to   try to port Ada|
> |compiler to this platform.                                        |
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> |P.S. Imagine an Ada program running on this device:               |
> |https://www.xmos.com/products/development-kits/xmp-64"            |
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> Dear Darek Maksimiuk,
>
> Well, if you show me the C++ program which I showed innews:alpine.LNX.2.00.1002151055530.17315@Bluewhite64.example.net
> running on your XMOS development kit at a speed which when scaled up
> for an XMP-64 would be faster than an Intel quadcore machine, then I
> would be able to get an Ada compiler for it, if I could convince a
> funding agency to pay for an XMP-64.
>
> Please let me know what happens.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Colin Paul Gloster,
> Grupo de Instrumentação Atómica e Nuclear,
> Departamento de Física,
> Universidade de Coimbra,
> Rua Larga,
> 3004-516 Coimbra,
> Portugal.
> Telephone: +351 239 410663
> Fax: +351 239 829158

That link didn't resolve to anything interesting for me.  Can you
forward me what you might have - it might be interesting to try it on
my 8-core x 4 thread SunFire T1000.

-- Karl --