Erlang & Hyperthreading

[ke.han]

I am interested in both "multi-OS-thread" erlang as well as the Sun 
Niagra chip.  I think it will be very interesting to see how 
multi-thread erlang does on a dual-core intel chip as well as how this 
differs (perhaps significantly) on the Sun Niagra architecture.
Keep the list posted with any progress reports!!!  Wish I had an excuse 
to get a new T1000 ;-)
thanks, ke han

Ryan Rawson wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm also interested in multi-threaded Erlang.
> 
> I work in the Enterprise - not telecom.  As such, SMP capable machines
> is the standard.  At minimum you would expect to see 2 CPUs on a low
> powered machine.  You could expect up to 8 CPUs on commodity Intel
> hardware as well.  Generally hyperthreaded CPUs show up as multiple
> CPUs on Linux - but be warned, I heard of performance improvements by
> turning off HT.  I have no other info than that tidbit, so your milage
> may vary.  I believe the app was Oracle on Linux.
> 
> It would be awesome to get technical preview of multiCPU aware/capable
> Erlang.  Or perhaps access to the CVS tip that contains it.  Waiting
> until end of 2006 seems like an awfully long time.  More eyes finds
> more bugs, right?
> 
> Thanks for you hard work,
> -ryan
> 
> On 2/26/06, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED> wrote:
>> There's some sort of company being set up in Dunedin to do something or
>> other with multicore/hyperthread-style processors.  I'm sorry to be
>> vague about this, but I'm not actually involved.  However, the University
>> _is_ involved, and a colleague in this Department _is_ involved, and it
>> seems that through him I will have access to an UltraSPARC-T1 later this
>> year.  (I hope I've got the name right:  8 UltraSPARC cores on the chip,
>> 4 virtual processors per core, running Solaris 10.)
>>
>> I spoke briefly to my colleague about this today.  (Erlang?  Can that
>> do multithreading?)  He/they *would* be interested in running Erlang
>> benchmarks on that machine when the machine is ready for Erlang and
>> Erlang is ready for Erlang.  My colleague is generally interested in
>> parallel programming (distributed shared memory is his pet topic),
>> telecommunications (he teaches our TELE papers), and is open-minded about
>> non-mainstream languages (he has published papers on parallel Prolog).
>>
>> So please note me as
>>  - pantingly keen to get my hands on even an alpha release of a
>>    multicore-ready Erlang
>>  - interested in suggestions about suitable benchmarks
>>
>>
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