Gary McGovern wrote:
I'm interested to learn something about that. Would that mean an embedded Squeak or a particular OS ?
Regards, Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: pp001600@mindspring.com To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:53 PM Subject: Exploiting multiprocessors
I found a "Squeak End" brief discussion of the topic 'native threads':
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1235
Has anyone thought about this some more, or the more general topic of how
to exploit multiprocessors, potentially very many of them?
Well, the multiprocessor bit would mean using an OS which supports multiple processors. (On Intel that means NT4/5 or Linux). I'm sure there's someone out there running Squeak on a dual (or more!) processor board. After you go beyond one board, it starts to get very tricky indeed. Different processes seem to respond to different kinds of parallel processing. ( /usr/doc/howto/en/Parallel-Processing-HOWTO.gz and /usr/doc/howto/en/Beowulf-HOWTO.gz for some ideas and references -- on SuSE, at least).
I know that Jecel and others have discussed (massively) parallel smalltalks on this very list.
Cheers
John (currently about to give up the ghost on trying to get Linux to use all its RAM and run on swap...guess that pre-emptive multi-tasking is just too clever for me to beat!)