On Aug 1, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Douglas Roberts wrote: >> While I'm at it, I'd like to note (whine) that very few universities seem >> interested in, or capable of, teaching high performance computing >> methodology. > Nah. In the coming years, scalability and reliability challenges of exascale > computing will challenge most HPC doctrine, anyway. > > Marcus
Agreed! It should be great fun when our laptops have 12 processors and 2 GPUs. Clearly that's driving many of the programming changes at Apple and MS. I understand VM designs help ( such as OS X LLVM: http://llvm.org/releases/download.html ), as do language changes such as Java's lambda expressions which are designed for MP. And of course our earlier chat about Go applies. Doug: would you be OK if we did not include C/C++ if we did include Go? Have you got it running on your linux boxes? It builds nicely on Darwin, so I'm sure it'd be a snap. I'd like your view on how it would fit into HPC environments like you work with. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
