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From: Dave Berry <daveb@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
To: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>, Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why systhreads?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:04:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.1.20021126190104.012605e8@pop3.btclick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021125110133.A12077@pauillac.inria.fr>

At 11:01 25/11/2002, Xavier Leroy wrote:
>For large
>parallel computations, clusters (distributed-memory systems) are the
>norm.

I think this is an exaggeration.  I've just started work at the UK National
e-Science Centre, which is linked to the Edinburgh Parallel Computing
Centre.  We have several new multiprocessor machines (16 processors, 64
processors, etc.), and there doesn't seem to be a shortage of uses for them.

Dave.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-26 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-23  9:08 Lauri Alanko
2002-11-24  7:36 ` Sven Luther
2002-11-24 17:41   ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-24 18:12     ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2002-11-24 21:10       ` Christopher Quinn
2002-11-24 17:14 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-24 17:18   ` Lauri Alanko
2002-11-24 18:27   ` Dmitry Bely
2002-11-24 23:14     ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-27 14:33       ` Tim Freeman
2002-11-29 13:25         ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2002-11-25 10:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-11-25 14:20   ` Markus Mottl
2002-11-25 19:01   ` Blair Zajac
2002-11-25 21:06     ` james woodyatt
2002-11-25 22:20       ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-26  6:49         ` Sven Luther
2002-11-27 13:12         ` Damien Doligez
2002-11-27 18:04           ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-27 21:04             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-11-27 21:45               ` [Caml-list] Calling ocaml from external threads Quetzalcoatl Bradley
2002-11-26  9:02     ` [Caml-list] Why systhreads? Xavier Leroy
2002-11-26  9:29       ` Sven Luther
2002-11-26  9:34         ` Xavier Leroy
2002-11-26  9:39           ` Sven Luther
2002-11-26 18:42       ` Chris Hecker
2002-11-26 19:04   ` Dave Berry [this message]
2002-11-27  0:07   ` Lauri Alanko
2002-11-26 19:23 Gregory Morrisett

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