Along with the question posed by Marius, how does PD currently scale on SMP systems with 2, 4, or 8 cores?
Cheers, ~Brandon On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:39 AM, marius schebella wrote: > No, I missed LAC, but it is not surprising that people research in > that > direction. I was looking through some papers yesterday, but not the > one > from jürgen, will catch up on that. > marius. > > Andrée Préfontaine wrote: >> >> Le 08-03-04 à 11:14, marius schebella a écrit : >> >>> hi, >>> I am reading an old interview with james moorer (with curtis roads >>> in >>> CMJ/6 1982). one funny thing is that he says, 'software synthesis is >>> either dead or dying[...] I am hoping it's demise will be quick and >>> relatively painless.' >>> in return he predicted all computation being done on special dsp >>> chips. >>> in part he was right, but on the other hand the main cpu got more >>> than >>> fast enough to survive (gfx is slightly different), but - and I am >>> coming to my point - he also was thinking about hundreds or >>> thousands of >>> parallel processing elements. right now, we are going to have >>> several >>> and in the future many many parallel CPUs, and the need for parallel >>> processing is back. miller was talking about that in montreal. >>> so I wonder how pd will survive that evolution? afaik the current >>> situation is poor in this regard. can anyone give an outview for the >>> future? would it be a jump from pd (I) 0.43 to pd II 0.1? >>> marius. >> >> Where you at Lac 2008? because Jürgen Reuter gave a lecture on the >> topic >> with who you are interested. >> I do wonder too in this regard and where very interested in his >> presentation : exploiting multi-core architectures for fast modular >> synthesis >> >> Andrée >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
