On Mar 25, 1:09 pm, an...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Anton Ertl)
wrote:
> I am not an expert in Grid Computing, but I have heard a number of
> talks about it, and my impression is that the problems that they are
> working on are very different from what you would ever encounter with
> the kind of machine you are thinking of; and vice versa, in a SeaForth
> chip you encounter issues that you will not encounter in a
> supercomputing node.
> ...
> I also believe that it is easier to develop, say, some wheather
> prediction code by starting on a PC than by starting on a 5x8 grid of
> SeaForth chips
Yes, but the issue raised by Jeff M.'s post was whether there was
reason to be concerned that there was no Forth programming model that
would be workable for massively superparallel computing.
We already know that Forth scales down to tiny little stack machines
and up to large single-processor systems, so the scalability from a
SeaForth type element to an individual element with as much or more
processing power as we find on our desktop is not a source of concern.
And given that the source of concern is a purely hypothetical one, I
see nothing wrong with addressing it with a purely hypothetical system
composed of an array of modules consisting of 5x8 arrays of SeaForth
chips.
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