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thousands of CPU cores

J C
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        Jon Harrop
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Date:	2008-07-10 (13:23)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] thousands of CPU cores

On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:57:44 J C wrote:
> ...many-core shared-memory systems...OpenMP-style primitives...

Incidentally, MP is good for distributed parallelism but fails to take 
advantage of shared memory (with a concurrent GC).

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