Re: [Swarm-Modelling] i7 processors

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Ken Lloyd wrote:
> The important
> aspect is how well your application partitions the data, and rolls out loops
> (tasks) for parallel processing within the software design. 
>   
Apple's new compiler toolchain is interesting because it is now based on 
LLVM.  Further, their OpenCL implementation is also based on LLVM.   
LLVM bytecode is converted to AMD or NVIDIA GPU instructions.

In OpenCL, one has:

OpenCL Queues trigger calls of CL kernels (CL is the OpenCL dialect of 
C99 implemented by `clang') -> LLVM bytecode -> GPU ISA

In Objective C (again with open source `clang'), one has:

Objective C -> LLVM bytecode -> x86 machine code

In Swarm we have:

Swarm Schedules trigger calls of Objective C methods

OpenCL queues are like simplified dynamic Swarm schedules..

Marcus