[ANN] Hydra VM (multithreaded squeak VM) showing first results

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 03:59:31 UTC 2007


On 25/12/2007, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr> wrote:
> >>
> > There is more and more pressing matters, because we are standing at
> > rising multi-core era. So, we need tools for fully utilizing their
> > powers.
>
> yes!
> So what would be a typical set up of multiple images from your
> perspective?
>
There can be a wide range of deployment models, depending on intents.
As i said, its a general purpose VM, and therefore things you can do
with it depends on your imagination :)

For Seasiders, there now a good perspectives to have a single 'main'
image, which accepts incoming connections, and do load-balancing
between smaller images which do all dirty work.
You could have much finer control on things comparing to running
multiple squeak processes.

I think, that Andreas having own ideas how to use new VM, and i think
it's better ask him to describe where it will be used.

But things are more or less the same: distribute the tasks between
multiple images, making them performing in parallel.

-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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