From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How many hardware threads?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:14:06 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2010-07-12T17:14:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns9DB386A2960FEWarrensBlatherings@85.214.73.210> (raw)
In-Reply-To: xah7sg1n8ib8$.26txy5fbnmui.dlg@40tude.net
Dmitry A. Kazakov expounded in
news:xah7sg1n8ib8$.26txy5fbnmui.dlg@40tude.net:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:47:41 -0400, Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>
>> I see a couple of difficulties with writing effective parallel
>> programs for "ordinary" applications (that is, applications that are
>> not embarrassingly parallel). One difficulty is load balancing: how
...
>
> Well, maybe, but I don't think it would bring much. Especially because
> normally cores support multi-tasking. It would be more important for
> the architectures with the cores that do not (GPU etc).
I was thinking about GPUs recently. Is there any Ada efforts
aimed in that direction?
I've read about C based interfaces (CUDA) for working with GPUs,
which naturally aroused the Ada language question.
Warren
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-12 0:47 How many hardware threads? Peter C. Chapin
2010-07-12 2:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-07-12 17:04 ` Pascal Obry
2010-08-16 19:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-17 3:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-17 9:27 ` Pascal Obry
2010-07-12 2:38 ` tmoran
2010-07-12 7:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-12 17:14 ` Warren [this message]
2010-07-13 0:01 ` Gene
2010-07-13 1:09 ` Shark8
2010-07-12 10:08 ` anon
2010-07-12 11:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-07-12 11:47 ` Egil Høvik
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