Red Hat: no desktop products coming [LWN.net]

Red Hat: no desktop products coming

Posted Apr 21, 2008 6:59 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Red Hat: no desktop products coming by mmarq
Parent article: Red Hat: no desktop products coming

If you use OpenMP (which has a really nasty #pragma-based syntax but works 
quite well, and which recent GCCs have native support for) then there is 
no need to recompile at all: you just compile with OpenMP, and the program 
itself probes for the number of cores at startup. I see no reason why an 
enhanced OpenMP runtime couldn't probe for a GPGPU and run bits on there 
if it wanted to, all without any need for this elaborate IR-shipping you 
seem to be discussing.

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Red Hat: no desktop products coming

Posted Apr 21, 2008 17:01 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Others also obvious targets are Intel open sourced IBB, and AMD open sourced "framewave"...
and you can bet that similar approaches would be getting here like the rain.