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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HEADER_SPAM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106aa4,2cca706e800cb6d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid106aa4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5b304ad929cd9001,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-10 15:14:39 PST Return-Path: From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.parallel,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Best language for parallel architectures [was: autoparallelize] Message-ID: References: <3E92DFBE.F4920623@imm.rwth-aachen.de> <3e9465bc$1@news.ucsc.edu> Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Originator: eugene@cse.ucsc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: sundance.cse.ucsc.edu Date: 10 Apr 2003 15:14:26 -0800 X-Trace: 10 Apr 2003 15:14:26 -0800, sundance.cse.ucsc.edu Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.ucsc.edu!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.parallel:1225 comp.lang.ada:36067 Date: 2003-04-10T15:14:26-08:00 List-Id: [c.p. moderator: the poster's note crosspost.] somebody (no insult intended) wrote: > Some argue that those features further complicate handling parallelism. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This one made me break my silent observation of a helpless discussion: Ada has comfortable parallelism (working since 1983!) with automatic dispatching of parallel tasks to different CPUs easily done by the compiler. I am wondering why the so-called High-Performance-Fortran-Community does not realize that fact. incredible. This said by a Fortran veteran with ample experience in 2 very large Fortran Finite Element systems. -- --Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de --Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen --http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ --Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)