Parallel Programming

[Stewart Gordon]

"Pablo Ripolles" <in-call at gmx.net> wrote in message 
news:fdvsdk$cu3$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hello,
>
> as many of you have already read, there is an ongoing discussion
> about the different paradigms/environments/approaches of parallel
> programming, particularily aimed towards how to exploite the evenly
> more common multi-core processors.
>
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=214627
> http://blogs.intel.com/research/2007/10/parallel_programming_environme.html
>
> I'd like to hear about D community point of view!  Is the
> std.thread our solution?

Possibly.  Threads and shared memory might be the best way to implement 
parallel programs that are only going to run on a single multi-core machine, 
rather than be split across many machines.

> Is there anyone expecting or following another approach?

A while ago I posted some bindings for part of LAM MPI:

http://tinyurl.com/394akj

But it's been quite a long time since I had the means to try it out.  And I 
don't know if these bindings are any use for MPI implementations other than 
LAM.

Stewart.

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