From: Brad Moore <brad.moore@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Magpie 0.10 Utilities for multi-core execution
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:49:34 -0700
Date: 2011-01-28T17:49:34-07:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <beb50$4d40c685$433a4ee0$23237@API-DIGITAL.COM>
On 26/01/2011 6:12 PM, Marc A. Criley wrote:
> Hot on the heels of Brad Moore's Paraffin, and inspired by his article
> in Ada Letters (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1879078,
> membership required), comes the initial release of Magpie:
>
> Magpie is a collection of generic procedures that distributes subranges
> of iterative application-defined processing across the processors of a
> multi-core CPU to achieve true concurrency and therefore increased
> application performance.
>
> Magpie supports work sharing and work seeking processing for the GNAT
> compiler on Linux platforms. The platform restriction is due to
> processor-affinity not being a standard Ada feature until Ada 2012, so
> in the interim a GNAT-specific pragma is utilized (more info in the
> README).
>
> Magpie is available for download at:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/magpie-mc
>
> Break into groups, execute, and rejoin with your consensus.
>
> Marc A. Criley
> McKae Technologies
>
And thanks to Marc as he was the one who encouraged me to release the
paraffin code.
Brad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-29 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-27 1:12 ANNOUNCE: Magpie 0.10 Utilities for multi-core execution Marc A. Criley
2011-01-29 0:49 ` Brad Moore [this message]
2011-01-29 2:25 ` Shark8
2011-02-03 2:02 ` Marc A. Criley
2011-02-24 14:46 ` Brad Moore
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