On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, David Boyes wrote: > > I've heard about "vector facilities", i really dont know much > > about it, > > only that they are designed to provide "help" with arithmetic > > operations, > > and things like that, maybe that could help with cpu bound task? > > Not really. They no longer exist on modern hardware -- they were part of > the 3090 and ESA hardware generation, and were specific to operations > that performed the same task on multiple contiguous elements (things > like multiplying array elements by a scalar in Fortran programs). > > > On the other hand the idea of "clustering" mainframes with > > intels could > > help with that tasks, or maybe its only my brain telling me > > that i need to > > sleep :-( > > It's an excellent idea and it works well. See my presentation and recent > pubs on exactly that topic. It drives the need for some additional > function in the zSeries hardware that isn't present yet, but it can be > done very effectively for specific applications. >
where can i found your presentation? (i know im not so crazy :-P) -- Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich. Jefe de la Unidad Departamental de Soporte Ticnico (Administracisn de Mainframe). Direccisn General de Informatica. Secretarma de Finanzas. Gobierno del Distrito Federal.
