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Shared memory parallel application: kernel threads

Hugo Ferreira
- Gerd Stolpmann
  - Hugo Ferreira
- Sylvain Le Gall
  - Hugo Ferreira
    - Philippe Wang
      - Hugo Ferreira
- Richard Jones
  - Hugo Ferreira
    - Richard Jones
      - Hugo Ferreira

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From:	Richard Jones <rich@a...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Shared memory parallel application: kernel threads

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:29:35PM +0000, Hugo Ferreira wrote:
> I will be using a single 8-CPU machine for the experiments.
> For the problem at hand shared the memory model seems to be
> a better fit than messaging.

I've not actually tried it, but I bet you can use a hybrid model --
Use MPI as an easy way to spread the jobs over the nodes and for
coordinating the processes, then have each process open a shared
Ancient file (backed by NFS) for the read-only data.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat