The fact that Larrabee has 64 general purpose (relatively speaking) Cores, and one can utilize them for processing is a benefit in itself. It's much more general than the Nvidia's Tesla, and unlike cell architecture, all Cores are the same. <br>
After all, this is what Erlang is all about, concurrent high throughput computing.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Kenneth Lundin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenneth.lundin@gmail.com">kenneth.lundin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The Erlang VM needs an operating system to run on.<br>
Is there any OS that runs on the Larrabee?<br>
<br>
I have never heard of anyone running Erlang on the Larrabee and we<br>
have for sure never tried it and I don't really<br>
understand why that would be very interesting.<br>
<br>
Erlang can utilize a CPU with many general purpose cores or maybe act<br>
as a controller running still running on geneal purpose cores but<br>
administering jobs to be run on other special purpose cores.<br>
The extra instructions available on Larrabee is nothing the current<br>
Erlang VM can make benefit of.<br>
<br>
/Kenneth Erlang/OTP, Ericsson<br>
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On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:32 PM, G.S. <<a href="mailto:corticalcomputer@gmail.com">corticalcomputer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello everyone,<br>
><br>
> Does the Erlang community know by any chance whether Erlang will run on the<br>
> Larrabbee cpu, and will be able to utilize all the cores properly,<br>
> compile...?<br>
> Larrabee is MIMD as you guys know, and so would be perfect for Erlang.<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> -Gene<br>
><br>
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