Re: parallel programming on debian
Thanks a lot. Now I know what I need to do now.
2009/1/31 Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:44:58 -0600
> zhang zhengquan <zhang.zhengquan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, basically, I don't have access to IRIX machines and I
>> wonder if there are counterparts or similar headers in linux that I
>> can use for parallel programming.
>>
>
> The problem is not the headers, you can include them per system using an ifdef.
> The problem is that linux doesn't have the same functions as far as I can tell.
>
> The current linux standard is pthreads. There is also fork/vfork (create a
> child process) and there used to be light weight threads years ago, can't for
> the life of me remember the exact name and reference. I think it came from sysv
> but not sure. Maybe someone else has a better memory than me.
>
> In hpc (high performance computing), OpenMP and MPI are more prevalent as
> they are designed for mathematical parallel processing and takes care of a
> lot of the overhead specific to these aims, but they are probably what you are
> looking for at the moment.
>
>
>> 2009/1/31 Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
>> > On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:03:43 -0800
>> > owens@netptc.net wrote:
>> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >---- Original Message ----
>> >> >From: ron.l.johnson@cox.net
>> >> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> >> >Subject: Re: parallel programming on debian
>> >> >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:08:15 -0600
>> >> >
>> >> >>On 01/30/2009 10:01 PM, zhang zhengquan wrote:
>> >> >>> Dear all debian users:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I am taking a course on parallel programming and I wonder if
>> >> >anyone
>> >> >>> has encountered the same library problem,
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> the code example the instructor provides has
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> #include <ulocks.h>
>> >> >>> #include <task.h>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> and obviously the header files are not available in any packages
>> >> >for
>> >> >>> debian sid.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Is there any way to get over this problem?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Ask the teacher where to get the headers.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>--
>> >> >>Ron Johnson, Jr.
>> >> >>Jefferson LA USA
>> >> >>
>> >> >>"I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers."
>> >> >>
>> >> The brackets around the header files usually indicate to the compiler
>> >> that the files are part of the 'standard' libraries. Normally for
>> >> non-standard header files you remove the braces and place the header
>> >> files in some known location (e.g. in the same directory as your
>> >> source code).
>> >> Larry
>> >
>> > It means that they are installed in standard places, doesn't mean that they
>> > are standard headers, or otherwise it would also work if you pass -I. to the
>> > compiler.
>> >
>> > Trying to look for them together though it turns out that they are sgi/irix
>> > multi processing routines. Couldn't find linux exact equivalents
>> >
>> > http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/IRIX/m_fork.3p.html
>> >
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