[Vm-dev] [Q] I wish know status of Vm for multicore processors.

[Edgar J. De Cleene]

On 3/5/15, 6:41 AM, "Clément Bera" <bera.clement at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you be more precise ? Do you want a research VM or a production ready VM ?
> Does your question mean: is there a VM working on such hardware or is there a
> VM working and making use of all the cores on such hardware ?
> 
> Let's say you want a VM using all the Cores of your hardware:
> 
> If you want a research-like VM, you can look into the Roar VM 
> <https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM> . It's a VM for computer with lots of cores,
> it will make efficient use of all the cores. It's running Squeak and Pharo.
> 
> If you want a production ready VM, the general strategy applied now is to have
> several images running in parallel communicating through sockets. There's work
> being done in making the FFI multithreaded so that things such as database
> access use several threads.
> 
> Now let's say you just want a VM running on such hardware, which is (I think)
> ARMv9:
> 
> There's both ARMv6 and ARMv7 VM working. They should work on ARMv9 too but
> most probably not everything will work out if the box (you may need to fix
> some details such as FFI).
> 
> Clement


I look for a VM for the Paralella Board https://www.parallella.org/board/
Very thanks !

Edgar
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