On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:00:37PM +0000, B. Estrade wrote:
> >I've mentioned this a couple of times, but postgresql didn't scale
> >well [on freebsd at least] when I tried it last year. I hope to
> >revisit when I get time.
>
> What other applications have you used to test the scalability? Have
> you looked into utilizing OpenMP (available via intel compilers, which
> are free for private use) ?
>
> http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/flin/282048.htm
>
> I am not sure of the state of GCC's OpenMP implementation
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/gomp/), but that might be more palatable
> to some.
>
> It seems that there either exist OpenMP benchmarks for shared memory
> systems or ones could be easily be created for fully exercising (or
> maybe exorcising;) the system. One thing is for sure, there are a lot
> of scientific applications out there written using OpenMP that might
> serve this purpose as well.
No, I've not looked at this. I don't have any experience with this
system, but it might be a good project for someone to look into.
Kris
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