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Date: | 2008-07-10 (22:25) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] thousands of CPU cores |
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 03:00:02PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > Today's biggest shared-memory supercomputers already have thousands of cores. Distributed shared memory perhaps, but thousand core machines are certainly not UMA SMP. It's simply not possible for them to be. > OCaml is already ~8x slower than F# on today's eight core desktops. You don't half talk a load of nonsense. MPI OCaml programs on 8 cores are just as fast, _and_ crucially can scale over clusters and to future multicore machines. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat