[PD] parallel processing

[marius schebella]

No, I missed LAC, but it is not surprising that people research in that 
direction. I was looking through some papers yesterday, but not the one 
from jürgen, will catch up on that.
marius.

Andrée Préfontaine wrote:
> 
> Le 08-03-04 à 11:14, marius schebella a écrit :
> 
>> hi,
>> I am reading an old interview with james moorer (with curtis roads in
>> CMJ/6 1982). one funny thing is that he says, 'software synthesis is
>> either dead or dying[...] I am hoping it's demise will be quick and
>> relatively painless.'
>> in return he predicted all computation being done on special dsp chips.
>> in part he was right, but on the other hand the main cpu got more than
>> fast enough to survive (gfx is slightly different), but - and I am
>> coming to my point - he also was thinking about hundreds or thousands of
>> parallel processing elements. right now, we are going to have several
>> and in the future many many parallel CPUs, and the need for parallel
>> processing is back. miller was talking about that in montreal.
>> so I wonder how pd will survive that evolution? afaik the current
>> situation is poor in this regard. can anyone give an outview for the
>> future? would it be a jump from pd (I) 0.43 to pd II 0.1?
>> marius.
> 
> Where you at Lac 2008? because Jürgen Reuter gave a lecture on the topic 
> with who you are interested.
> I do wonder too in this regard and where very interested in his 
> presentation : exploiting multi-core architectures for fast modular 
> synthesis
> 
> Andrée
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