Hi all,
Myself new to the group. But have been following the posts for some time.
This initiative is interresting. Moinak, has any further progress been made ?
Thanks & Regards,
Kaushik Datta
--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote:
> From: Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org>
> Subject: [belenix-discuss] Task Queue library - Rehash
> To: "Belenix Discuss" <belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org>
> Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 2:23 AM
> Hi Folks,
>
> ? I had emailed this group sometime back about the
> Task Queue library:
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/2009-September/005392.html
>
> I did not follow up further at that time due to time
> constraints and many
> things on my plate. I have now done some more work on this
> piece and
> changed things a bit and also added a sample program that
> demonstrates
> and actual usage of the library. The sample program does a
> multithreaded
> segmented file copy.
>
> The source code can be found here:
> http://belenix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/belenix/trunk/misc/libtaskq/
> You can check out that piece using this command:
> svn co https://belenix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/belenix/trunk/misc/libtaskq
> libtaskq
> The sample program is in mcp.c.
>
> However this location is temporary as this is a separate
> project and not related
> to BeleniX. I have registered for project hosting on sf.net
> since I
> intend to make this
> a cross-platform framework.
>
> Listed below are a bunch of ideas that I have around this
> piece:
>
> * Make it portable to BSD and Linux. This means using POSIX
> thread interfaces.
> * Provide build-time support for different allocators apart
> from Umem:
> libc malloc, Hoard etc.
> * Provide support for different programming models like for
> eg. BSP.
> * Build extensions for different languages like Python.
> * Support dispatch of the Blocks C language extension, see
> Apple's
> Grand Central Dispatch:
> http://libdispatch.macosforge.org/
> * Extend to distributed task queues ?
> * Can this interoperate with OpenMP ?
> * Provide fine-granied task control like Processor
> binding.
> * Possibly even extend it to provide out of the box support
> for alternate
> parallel hardware platforms like the Cell BE.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
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