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 10.236.69.35 with SMTP id m23mr8020024yhd.6.1391892665673; Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:51:05 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.25.242 with SMTP id 105mr17413qgt.8.1391892665657; Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:51:05 -0800 (PST) Path: backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!k15no13829770qaq.0!news-out.google.com!y18ni5935qap.1!nntp.google.com!k15no13829764qaq.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 12:51:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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 References: <9c70d590-7f72-4575-b8a5-4fdc496cc502@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Very large scale parallelism From: mockturtle Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:51:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:184730 Date: 2014-02-08T12:51:05-08:00 List-Id: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 6:26:38 PM UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 07:14:23 -0800 (PST), mockturtle wrote: > > > Some of the speakers talked about the need of tools to program computers > > with a large number of cores (even millions). > > > Are you sure they mean cores? Millions of cores would bring less than > nothing as the memory will be the bottleneck. > Hmmm... You catch me a bit off-balance here. I am almost (say 90%) sure, but I would swear on it... As I said, this is not really my field (so, why was I there? Long story...).