Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
andrewcoppin:
I read somewhere that GHC's SMP support has been "tested up to 40 cores".
Pray tell me, what the heck kind of machine has 40 cores? (And where can
I buy mine from?? :-D LOL!)
40 cpus.
It's a midrange Sun Fire server, something like this one
http://www.sun.com/servers/midrange/sunfire_e6900/index.xml
You'll need more than spare change to get started though.
o_O
*dies*
...which gets the question "where did *you* get one?!"
*However* 8 core amd64 machines are practically commodity boxes now. Go
get one.
I'm currently sitting here typing on a 2-core AMD64 box. ;-)
However, it seems socket-939 is history now, so... Besides, all the
benchmarks seem to say Intel's Core 2 Duo is the faster product.
Currently. But then, if I could figure out how to use my GPU...
Not fantastically relevant, but... the makers of the Persistence of
Vision Ray Tracer are currently working on a new multi-threaded beta.
It's taken them *months*. AFAIK, it's written in C, and they had to
spend forever removing global variables and whatnot. Huge internal
restructuring to make it work properly.
I almost want to sit down and code something in Haskell and see how many
times slower it is... ;-)
[The issue with that being 1. I can't figure out a really good set of
abstractions, and 2. the type system hates me. Oh, and 3. it would have
to save files in PPM format, because I can't figure out how to do
bitmapped graphics or PNG writing in Haskell...]
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