19 Jan
2004
19 Jan
'04
4 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 10:12, Dinu Gherman wrote:
Sun Invites IBM, Cray To Work On New Computer Language
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"Java has made it easy to program using a small number of threads. But in this [technical computing] world you have to handle thou- sands or hundreds of thousands of threads. We need the right lan- guage constructs to do that," Mitchell said.
This is part of a DARPA project to support supercomputing in the US. Not sure it's a great fit for Python. Will a super-optimized Python program approach the performance of a super-optimized parallel Fortran program? Jeremy