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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 107079,9d9cef47f5d1976c X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec0aac9465177ad0 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?windows-1252?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Multithreaded scientific programming References: <1159978124.458442.80520@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <4523e925$1@nntp.unige.ch> <1159998421.978196.161210@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1160007272.875375.190830@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <7267657.YP3qbeQrCS@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: <7267657.YP3qbeQrCS@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:22:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.106.238 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1160158964 83.250.106.238 (Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:22:44 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:22:44 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com sci.math.num-analysis:6321 comp.lang.ada:6894 Date: 2006-10-06T18:22:44+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > David B. Chorlian wrote: >> Talk about cache, TLB, and other memory management topics which >> are the serious problems in large-scale scientific computing. > > Well, for that I would have to know what a TLB is... Translation lookaside buffer � a small cache memory for the page table, which the memory management unit uses to speed up the translation from virtual addresses to hardware addresses. I guess David wants to write programs such that they only relatively rarely need to access memory pages that aren't in the TLB. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu