> > > > Did you find any ideas there particularly engaging? >> > > I'm still digesting it. My first thoughts were that if my pc is a > distributed heterogeneous computer, what lessons it can borrow from earlier > work on distributed heterogeneous computing (ie. plan9). > > I found the discussion on cache coherency, message passing and optimization > to be enlightening. The fact that you may want to > organize your core OS quite a bit differently depending on which > model cpus in the same family you use is kind of scary. > > The mention that "... the overhead of cache coherence restricts the ability > to scale up to even 80 cores" is also eye openeing. If we're at aprox 8 > cores today, thats only 5 yrs away (if we double cores every > 1.5 yrs). >
I personally thought the use of DSLs built on Haskell was rather clever, but the other discoveries are the sort of feedback I suspect our CPU vendors aren't going to think about on their own somehow :-) > > Roman. >> > > Tim Newsham > http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/ > >
