A Case Against ... authors show zero awareness of Cray-MTA

By: Björn Ragnar Björnsson (bjorn.ragnar.delete@this.gmail.com), May 19, 2021 6:18 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Björn Ragnar Björnsson (bjorn.ragnar.delete@this.gmail.com) on May 19, 2021 1:13 pm wrote:
> 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.

Let me reiterate. Does anyone have experience of Cray's Threadstorms?
< Previous Post in ThreadNext Post in Thread >
TopicPosted ByDate
A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesLittle Horn2021/05/17 05:03 PM
  A Case Against (Most) Context Switchesrwessel2021/05/17 06:55 PM
  A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesFoo_2021/05/18 01:58 AM
    A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesDoug S2021/05/18 08:45 AM
      A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesKonrad Schwarz2021/05/19 07:35 AM
  A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesEtienne Lorrain2021/05/18 03:11 AM
  A Case Against (Most) Context SwitchesAndrey2021/05/18 06:58 AM
  A Case Against (Most) Context Switchesgallier22021/05/18 08:41 AM
  A Case Against (Most) Context Switches---2021/05/18 09:00 AM
  A Case Against That Other PaperBrendan2021/05/18 12:37 PM
    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
Reply to this Topic
Name:
Email:
Topic:
Body: No Text
How do you spell tangerine? 🍊