From the recent Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2008 there are now videos on YouTube.
Among them Thorsten Schütt's talk "Scalable Wikipedia with Erlang".
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Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Friday, June 20, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
More Threads, More Trouble?
My Google Alert on Erlang spew out this article: More Threads, More Trouble?
It starts with the observation that we move from increasing CPU clock speed to an increasing number of cores and then continues with a brief overview of prominent approaches to add concurrency to software systems / concurrent computing:
It starts with the observation that we move from increasing CPU clock speed to an increasing number of cores and then continues with a brief overview of prominent approaches to add concurrency to software systems / concurrent computing:
- time-sharing
- multi-processing / multi-tasking
- multi-threading
- shared memory
- OpenMP / MPI
- futures
- message passing (with Occam and Erlang mentioned)
- Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP)
- transactional memory / software transactional memory (STM)
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