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	from ivoras@fer.hr on Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:35:41PM +0100
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Subject: Re: Let's use gcc-4.2, not 4.1 -- OpenMP
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:35:41PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> 
> > Although commercial compilers (like Intel's icc for Windows and Linux, or Sun 
> > Studio on Solaris, or Visual Studio on Windows) have supported OpenMP pragmas 
> > for a while (icc even allows parallelizing accross multiple machines), 
> > gcc-4.2 is the first release of GCC that supports it (with `-fopenmp' flag).
> > 
> > I anticipate, "out-of-the-box" OpenMP support will soon be one of the 
> > required "check-boxes" for an OS to be considered for many things...
> 
> For what it's worth: +1. It's going to be practically required even for
> medium-performance applications as CPU clock rate stagnate and more
> cores are grown. I've recently seen a 16-cpu x86 server in 1U! (granted,
> 8 of those are hyperthreaded "CPUs" ;) )

and the other 8 are overheated CPUs ?