Re: [FRIAM] FW: Distribution / Parallelization of ABM's

[Douglas Roberts]

For SMP implementations, perhaps.  I'm still not a big believer in SMP being the future for large-scale HPC, in spite of Intel's promise of an 80-core processor within 5 years: http://news.com.com/Intel+pledges+80+cores+in+five+years/2100-1006_3-6119618.html, or perhaps even because of it.  If it's going to take 5 years to get an 80 cpu chip, distributed memory HPC systems will have continued to increase their lead in performance/cost over shared memory systems and will be even more competitive than they are now.

--Doug

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On 10/7/06, Marcus G. Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Software Transactional Memory might be one way to make multithreaded
ABMs easier to program and more scalable...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory


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