On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:35:41PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > Although commercial compilers (like Intel's icc for Windows and Linux, or Sun > > Studio on Solaris, or Visual Studio on Windows) have supported OpenMP pragmas > > for a while (icc even allows parallelizing accross multiple machines), > > gcc-4.2 is the first release of GCC that supports it (with `-fopenmp' flag). > > > > I anticipate, "out-of-the-box" OpenMP support will soon be one of the > > required "check-boxes" for an OS to be considered for many things... > > For what it's worth: +1. It's going to be practically required even for > medium-performance applications as CPU clock rate stagnate and more > cores are grown. I've recently seen a 16-cpu x86 server in 1U! (granted, > 8 of those are hyperthreaded "CPUs" ;) ) and the other 8 are overheated CPUs ?Received on Thu Dec 14 2006 - 14:50:00 UTC
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