[PD] parallel processing

[Phil Stone]

It is my impression, at least, that on my MacBookPro, the audio engine 
is running on one core, while the graphics run on the other.  I could be 
wrong about this, but I've never noticed a degradation of audio due to 
graphics in my setup, and assumed that this was the reason.

Obviously, this is not really parallel processing in the sense we're 
discussing, but every little bit helps.


Phil Stone
pkstonemusic.com


marius schebella wrote:
> 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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