Hello, I'm not even beginner user of PETSC (about three years ago I have only successfully passed by - quick installation of petsc + quick diskless cluster setup + few nights of old code adjustment + few months of computations), but I have question to PETSC developers (which is result of Christmas meditations or rather Christmas surfeit ;-) ).
Two weeks ago I have taken place in cell processor programming workshop. It seems that NEW is coming to us. It seems that never ending cpu clock picking up has just finished. It seems that if we will need speed up of computations in hpc we will need to switch - start writing & new rewrite our old soft! - to such specialized processors like powerxcell or developed by clearspeed math coprocessors. So my question is: could someone of PETSC developers comment this subject? Are you going to port PETSC to one of such emerging architectures or maybe to all? Is it fast&easy or another missionimpossible? or maybe it is only commercial propaganda of guys from ibm and NEW is NOT comming to us...? tom ######################################################## # tomjan at jay.au.poznan.pl # # jay.au.poznan.pl/~tomjan/ # ########################################################
