[PD] parallel processing

[bsoisoi]

Along with the question posed by Marius, how does PD currently scale  
on SMP systems with 2, 4, or 8 cores?

Cheers,
~Brandon


On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:39 AM, marius schebella wrote:

> 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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