Lombard, David N | 3 Mar 2005 16:55
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Java usage poll

Of course, the results of this poll are quite timely...

>Gelato News for February:
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>* Web Polls
>    - February poll: Which JVM are you using?
>        Java Sun:       50%
>        BEA JRockit:    15%
>        SableVM:         2%
>        Kaffee:          8%
>        JamVM:           2%
>        IBM:             4%
>        Don't use Java: 17%
>        Other:           2%

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My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation.
Mark K. Smith | 3 Mar 2005 20:02

ANNOUNCE: Systemtap - lightweight kernel instrumentation project

Systemtap is a lightweight kernel instrumentation system for 
troubleshooting performance problems that arise in interactions 
between address spaces on a single computer. 

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ 

Systemtap will use a library called kprobes. KProbes needs to 
be ported to the Itanium platform. 

If you are interested in this project, contact Brad Chen 
<brad dot chen at intel dot com>, for more information. 
Al Stone | 6 Mar 2005 01:01
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Re: New proposal: Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 12:18 -0600, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> >From http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-ptp/index.html :
> 
> "Designing and developing parallel programs (that is, multi-process, not
> just multi-threaded programs) is an inherently complex task. Developers
> must choose from the many parallel architectures and programming
> paradigms that are available, and face a plethora of tools that are
> required to execute, debug, and analyze parallel programs in these
> environments. Few, if any, of these tools provide any degree of
> integration, or indeed any commonality in their user interfaces at all.
> This further complicates the parallel developer's task, hampering
> software engineering practices, and ultimately reducing productivity.
> 
> One consequence of this complexity is that best practice in parallel
> application development has not advanced to the same degree as more
> traditional programming methodologies. The result is that there is
> currently no open-source, industry-strength platform that provides a
> highly integrated environment specifically designed for parallel
> application development. In order to address this deficiency, the
> Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform Project (PTP) aims to extend the Eclipse
> framework to support a rich set of parallel programming languages and
> paradigms, and provide a core infrastructure for the integration of a
> wide variety of parallel tools."

Just an FYI: the paper presented at EclipseCon 2005 is at
http://eclipsecon.org/presentations/EclipseCon2005_4.1EclipseParallelTools.pdf

It seemed to be work in the early stages of development, but
a good presentation, and a pretty interesting demo.

(Continue reading)

Al Stone | 6 Mar 2005 01:18
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Gelato GCC Wiki Site

Some of you on the gelato-gcc mailing list have probably
already seen this; sorry for the duplication, but thought
some other folks might be interested.....

Thanks to Matthieu and the kind folks at UIUC, we now have a
wiki site running for the Gelato GCC folks -- all of us, that
is.

Try it out at http://gcc.gelato.org.  If you've never used a
wiki before, it's quick and easy to learn.  Whether you've
used a wiki before or not, feel free to add content and upload
interesting data.  The whole point of the exercise is to make
it easier to share data amongst ourselves, and make it easier
to get the discussions going.

I've started to put some content out there, and Bob Kidd has
been adding some great stuff, but the two of us can only type
so fast :)...

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Rayson | 6 Mar 2005 15:53

Re: HP zx6000 performance issues (again)


The Itamium performance on Integer code is never good...

For large floating point code, the Itamium is good, but for integer code, the AMD64 chips are much better.
Shin-Ming Liu | 6 Mar 2005 20:13
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Re: HP zx6000 performance issues (again)

Would you provide more characterization, Liuux or HP-UX, gcc or icc, aCC?

Shin-Ming

Rayson (From Portal) wrote:

>The Itamium performance on Integer code is never good...
>
>For large floating point code, the Itamium is good, but for integer code, the AMD64 chips are much better.
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