Will You Still Need Me When I’m Sixty-Core? HPC and Multi-core

Will You Still Need Me When I'm Sixty-Core? HPC and Multi-core

Now that all of the major processor vendors have introduced multi-core chips, the impact of this relatively new technology on high-performance computing should to be addressed. What will is the immediate impact on HPC application development? And what will “many-cores” ultimately mean for the future of the HPC cluster?

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2 Comments on Will You Still Need Me When I'm Sixty-Core? HPC and Multi-core »

hilbertastronaut said:

There are a number of parallel programming languages out there that offer what is called a “distributed shared memory” model: that is, there are thread-private variables and shared variables, but the programming model lets a thread know whether a shared variable is “close” or “far away.” New languages in the pipeline may let programmers reason about locality, if they wish.

June 28th, 2007 2:05 PM (permalink)

ceefour said:

You talk about message passing interface, and libraries for C/C++, but I wonder why you do not talk about Erlang, which has concurrent capability and parallel programming as first-class.

I summarized Erlang a bit here.

And probably other languages (like Haskell)…

September 13th, 2007 2:11 PM (permalink)

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