A Case Against (Most) Context Switches

By: Björn Ragnar Björnsson (bjorn.ragnar.delete@this.gmail.com), May 19, 2021 1:13 pm
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Romain Dolbeau (romain.delete@this.dolbeau.org) on May 19, 2021 4:05 am wrote:
> Little Horn (sink.delete@this.example.net) on May 17, 2021 5:03 pm wrote:
> > Thoughts?
>
> Long before I reached the end of the paper (my bad, I know), the Cray MTA (formerly
> Tera) architecture came back to my mind... Massive multithreading didn't work
> then, didn't immediately see a reason why it would work today...

Great! Thanks for the heads-up on the Cray-MTAs. "didn't work then" is not
immediately obvious to me apart from failure in the market at the time.

It would be great fun to hear from someone with hands-on / real-world
experience of these CPUs.
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A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesLittle Horn2021/05/17 05:03 PM
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    A Case Against That Other PaperMark Roulo2021/05/18 03:32 PM
      A Case Against That Other PaperBrendan2021/05/18 11:05 PM
        A Case Against That Other PaperMark Roulo2021/05/19 01:09 PM
  A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesRomain Dolbeau2021/05/19 04:05 AM
    A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesBjörn Ragnar Björnsson2021/05/19 01:13 PM
      A Case Against ... authors show zero awareness of Cray-MTABjörn Ragnar Björnsson2021/05/19 06:18 PM
    Cray MTA avoided cachesPaul A. Clayton2021/05/20 06:36 AM
      Cray MTA avoided cachesdmcq2021/05/20 10:09 AM
        Cray MTA avoided cachesRayla2021/05/20 10:28 AM
      A LONG response to the paperPaul A. Clayton2021/05/22 06:15 AM
        A LONG response to the paperAdrian2021/05/22 09:18 AM
          Thank you for the note of appreciationPaul A. Clayton2021/05/24 05:06 AM
  A Case Against (Most) Context Switchesdmcq2021/05/19 01:47 PM
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