On 14-nov-10, at 02:44, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
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Sometime the problem you have is not so costly that you need to
commit all resources to it, you just want to solve it efficiently
and if possible taking advantage of the parallelization.
In this case a good model is the actor model where
parallel noob Wrote:
>
> I fail to map these concepts discussed here with the things listed on those
> pages. I found MPI, POSIX Threads, TBB, Erlang, OpenMP, and OpenCL there.
>
> Sean mentioned:
>
> "In the long term there may turn out to be better models, but I don't know of
> one today."
>
On 13-nov-10, at 22:23, Gary Whatmore wrote:
parallel noob Wrote:
Hello
Intro: people with pseudonyms are often considered trolls here, but
this is a really honest question by a sw engineer now writing
mostly sequential web applications. (I write "parallel" web apps,
but the logic goe
Not really an answer to your questions, but according to my google reader
this appeared very few minutes ago
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4134
I don't think we've heard the last word on this domain of programming.
Sean, sybrandy, don, fawzi, tobias, gary, dsimcha, bearophile, russel, trass3r,
dennis, and simen clearly have ideas how to work with parallel problems.
Ideas: Yes.
Expert: No. I haven't exercised it much as I haven't been able to do it
at work. Others here have shown that they have more kno
Peter Alexander Wrote:
> On 13/11/10 7:04 PM, parallel noob wrote:
> > The situation is different with GPUs. My Radeon 5970 has 3200 cores. When
> > the core count doubles, the FPS rating in games almost doubles. They
> > definitely are not running Erlang style processes (one for GUI, one for
>
On 13/11/10 7:04 PM, parallel noob wrote:
The situation is different with GPUs. My Radeon 5970 has 3200 cores. When the
core count doubles, the FPS rating in games almost doubles. They definitely are
not running Erlang style processes (one for GUI, one for sounds, one for
physics, one for netw
parallel noob Wrote:
> Hello
>
> Intro: people with pseudonyms are often considered trolls here, but this is a
> really honest question by a sw engineer now writing mostly sequential web
> applications. (I write "parallel" web apps, but the logic goes that you
> write sequential applications
Hello
Intro: people with pseudonyms are often considered trolls here, but this is a
really honest question by a sw engineer now writing mostly sequential web
applications. (I write "parallel" web apps, but the logic goes that you write
sequential applications for each http query, the frontend
