[PD] parallel processing

marius schebella marius.schebella at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 17:53:29 CET 2008


pd is only using one of 2, 4 or 8. is that what your question was?
marius.

bsoisoi wrote:
> 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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