Dear Waldek, thank you for your reply.
> Currently FriCAS is unable take advantage of multiple threads. > I am thinking how to change this. ATM it seems that we need > something like Open MP at Spad level. My own experience with Open MP is not very good (in C++) benchmarking showed that only very straight forward loops etc get boosted up, in half of the cases the code was performing on a same or worse level. Last week a person from Mircosoft research gave a talk about compiling code for heterogenous multi core systems. They found a way to write an langage extension which allows 'on the fly' compilation for multi cores, GPUs and even FPGAs from the _same_ high level language. This is done by jus in time compilation (JITing). Downside is, that the code has to be restructured, which would need a rewrite of lost of algebra code in FriCAS (and I don't know if their tool is available for Linux). ahow they fond a very good scaling and the programmer has _not_ really to think about how that is performed, they provide some high level language constructs to reorganize multiple use of data in such algorithms as graphics filters etc. But such things are done in computer algebra also all the time. Maple is currently also trying to make the kernel multi threaded, but the results are so far poore as I can tell. Unfortunately I don't have currently any time to investigate this further, but I have build a second FriCAS with Clozure CL and may once in a while see how it perfomrms in comparision to sbcl. Cheers BF. -- % PD Dr Bertfried Fauser % Research Fellow, School of Computer Science, Univ. of Birmingham % Honorary Associate, University of Tasmania % Privat Docent: University of Konstanz, Physics Dept <http://www.uni-konstanz.de> % contact |-> URL : http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~fauserb/ % Phone : +44-121-41-42795 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to fricas-de...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en.
