[Oberon] Multiprocessor interconnect design and programming

[Lars]

Interesting discussion regarding the science of computers.

This, is what I thought computer science courses taught in university and
college.  i.e. the science behind a computer hardware and then finally how
to create software that works with that hardware.

Apparently in college and university, computer science doesn't teach these
sorts of things, which is sad because that is what computer science
means....

Maybe some of the computer science journals out there have some articles
on the subject? If not, someone should write it.

On Mon, November 21, 2016 5:10 pm, John R. Strohm wrote:
> It depends.
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> It depends on the architecture of the processors.
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> It depends on the architecture of the system.
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> It depends on what the overall system is intended to do.  For some
> applications, you want a "sea of processors", all working simultaneously
> on pieces of a total dataset.  Image processing is frequently done this
> way. For others, you want a pipeline, one processor feeding another.
> (Certain
> graphics applications work particularly well this way.)
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> It just depends.
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> There is no one "right" way.  There are general guidelines, but that's
> all you really have to go on, and there are always exceptions to the
> guidelines.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Srinivas Nayak
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 5:21 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: [Oberon] Multiprocessor interconnect design and programming
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>
> Dear All,
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>
> Recently I am little curious to know how two processors work together...
> Say on a single board, two x86 processors are sitting...
> How they will work under a single OS...
> How generally such multiple processors get connected on one board
> and how they get initialize and work under one OS, how OS gets the other
> cpu work... Not much from hardware point of view, but from a OS designer
> point of view on multiprocessor system...
>
> Is there any good book that teaches us about these?
> I see all books discuss on single processor systems...
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>
> I asked in IRC channels, but they couldn't help either...
> Any help?
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> With thanks and best regards,
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
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>
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