Re: [boost] [Fibers] Performance

Subject: Re: [boost] [Fibers] Performance
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-16 11:44:33

> > > Now, if we were talking about hundreds of thousands of threads or
> > > milions of threads, it would be interesting to see numbers for both
> > > threads and fibers...
> >
> > FWIW, the use cases I'm seeing (and trust me those are very
> > commonplace at least in scientific computing) involve not just
> > hundreds or thousands of threads, but hundreds of millions of threads
> > (billions of threads a couple of years from now).
> >
> >
> On a single machine? That would be impressive!

Well, it depends on the size of the machine, doesn't it? The no. 1 machine
on the top 500 list [1] (Tianhe-2 [2]) has 3120000 cores (in 16,000 compute
nodes).

Regards Hartmut
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[1] http://www.top500.org/
[2] http://www.top500.org/list/2013/11/