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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How many hardware threads?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:14:06 +0000 (UTC)
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Dmitry A. Kazakov expounded in
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> 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