Re: Parallel

[gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde)]

In article <K77H4.419$Qy3.109931@news.pacbell.net>, tmoran@bix.com wrote:
>> > Kaklis Antonis wrote:
>> >
>> > > Could you please tell me how can I (if it is possible),
>> > > do parallel programming with Ada95?

>What kind of "parallel programming" is wanted?  Massively parallel
>with thousands of CPUs?  Fine grained SIMD parallel?  Multitasking
>on a single or a few CPUs (that could use Ada's tasking constructs)?

Multitasking do not neccesarily limit itself to a few processors.
At my university we have an 128-processor SGI/Cray origin machine 
that can use multithreading for parallization, and there are 
computers working that way with at least 2048 processors.
I have not personally tested with more than 4 processors, though.

But you are right, there are several ways to do parallel programming.

>Networked CPUs that could use Ada's Appendix E "Distributed Systems"
>constructs?  Networked CPUs that could use TCP/IP sockets, or
>serial comm ports, that could Ada library packages available for
>various OSes?  (My ISP dropped the initial post in this thread.)
>> > > Any tutorial or web-address related?
>  How about "Concurrency in Ada" ISBN 0 521 62911 X paperback.

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