Comments on: Will You Still Need Me When I'm Sixty-Core? HPC and Multi-core http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3538/ Open Source, Open Standards Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:00:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: ceefour http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3538/#comment-429 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:11:44 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3538/#comment-429 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 <a href="http://www.hendyirawan.com/2007/08/20/erlang-the-concurrent-programming-language/" rel="nofollow">summarized Erlang a bit here</a>. And probably other languages (like Haskell)... 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)…

]]> by: hilbertastronaut http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3538/#comment-151 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:05:04 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3538/#comment-151 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. 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.

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