From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.163.71 with SMTP id z7mr8227293qax.5.1391872463939; Sat, 08 Feb 2014 07:14:23 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.25.242 with SMTP id 105mr419445qgt.8.1391872463927; Sat, 08 Feb 2014 07:14:23 -0800 (PST) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!f11no13759404qae.1!news-out.google.com!y18ni6168qap.1!nntp.google.com!f11no13759401qae.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 07:14:23 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=93.37.242.86; posting-account=9fwclgkAAAD6oQ5usUYhee1l39geVY99 NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.37.242.86 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9c70d590-7f72-4575-b8a5-4fdc496cc502@googlegroups.com> Subject: Very large scale parallelism From: mockturtle Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:14:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 1892 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:184725 Date: 2014-02-08T07:14:23-08:00 List-Id: Dear.all,=20 few days ago I was in Pisa at a launch event of a EU program about HPC. Som= e of the speakers talked about the need of tools to program computers with = a large number of cores (even millions). =20 This is not my field, but I thought a bit about it. Although I have the fe= eling that maybe the right tool is very problem dependent (e.g., solving di= fferential equations, search for matches over large databases, hi-quality r= endering, ...) I could not help thinking that my preferred language (INTER= CAL, what else? :-) could be a very nice tool, especially if a compiler spe= cialized to a specific architecture is available. This raised the following curiosity: are you aware about any application of= Ada to very large scale parallelism? Just out of curiosity. Thank you in advance Riccardo.