Parallella Community

I'd find it interesting to have some sort of parallel lisp on the board, especially to run "Maxima" on (symbolic algebraic math program ), but isn't the memory bandwidth going to be in the way? I mean does a list interpeter kernel run on 32 kB? I doubt it, so there might be a lot of work to make sense of such idea in practice.

Of course the idea of a new Connection Machine () may help Finck and Reese do some good work, and I would find it fun to work on.

Theo V.

Hi, here googled some information about it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9400 ... rogramming

http://lparallel.org/
http://netzhansa.blogspot.kr/2012/06/lp ... brary.html

Star Lisp was also the fist thing I thought of. So maybe you find Steve Omohundro's "Essential Star Lisp Manual"
- describing PVARS - of interest.



Peter

IIRC the CM had "xectors": associative vectors.

Yes, xectors are nicely explained in Danny Hillis' book "The Connection Machine" http://www.amazon.com/Connection-Machin ... 0262081571 (and elsewhere)? I suspect Lisp on Parallella could learn a lot from TM's CmLisp for SIMD abstraction/s alone?

Starlisp PVARs are an interesting choice. I'd love to help get that going.

please do not forget that cm used to have a frontend. The idea here is that we could implement some parallelLisp DIRECTLY! Just imagine the powerbof some emacs running a psetq with evaluated second forms directly!
I dream of this .. Hope you too.
At the first sight It seems feasible within a ´correct´ community correct does not mean linux-like; once a month a small piece of code would bring enough. Even for busy people knowing that enthusiasm will hopefully be enough strong to biring up (finally) those libraries that we all hope that some others would build
Whatvdo you think?

One addition: I'dlike to call this "aquarella" like successive stratuses over a white paper. Each one with its own core mask... Sharing memory and grouping results like series and generators.