Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!necntc!ci-dandelion!ulowell!miner From: miner@ulowell.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Hypercubes (place in life) Message-ID: <1103@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 02:19:57 EST Article-I.D.: ulowell.1103 Posted: Wed Feb 25 02:19:57 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 21:34:43 EST References: <1205@ogcvax.UUCP> <5699@amdahl.UUCP> <1210@ogcvax.UUCP> <362@ames.UUCP> Reply-To: miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Richard Miner) Organization: University of Lowell Lines: 16 Keywords: Marketing hype In article <362@ames.UUCP> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >Don't expect to take you dusty deck C or Fortran and have it automatically >parallelize it (when it does, we will have achieved true AI 8-). >--eugene miya > NASA Ames Research Center The Alliant (a supermini parallel/vector machine made in MA) has a decent parallelizing FORTRAN compiler, and they are working on a C. Many of the companies coming out with parallel computer systems are doing parallelizing FORTRAN as the first language. Still not the best way to express things, but it allows you to port code. And even with compilers like Alliant's it is still good to go through the code and modify loops to remove dependencies between variables etc, it helps the compiler perform better. -- Rich Miner !ulowell!miner Cntr for Productivity Enhancement 617-452-5000x2693