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- From: jonesm@nic.cerf.net (Matthew Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Ada on massively parallel supercomputer
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:31:41 GMT
- Organization: CERFnet
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- In article <1992Dec14.095348.36617@uservx.plk.af.mil> zetocha@uservx.plk.af.mil writes:
- % I am in the process of developing parallelized neural network
- %algorithms using Ada. I would like to do some testing on a Massively
- %Parallel Supercomputer, but I'm having trouble locating an MP computer
- %which has a parallel Ada compiler. Does anyone know where I might find
- %such a beast to buy time off of?
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- Boy I'm sure everyone would like to know of such exists. You did not say
- whether you want MIMD or SIMD. My understanding is that it would be very
- difficult to build a validated Ada compiler for an SIMD computer
- (how to handle exceptions in a parallel for is given as an example).
- Also would you want to use parallel tasking?
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- Let us all know what you find.
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- Matthew Jones
- jonesm@cerf.net
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