[Beowulf] Has anyone actually seen/used a cell system?

Andrew Shewmaker agshew at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 19:18:10 PDT 2006


On 10/2/06, Vincent Diepeveen <diep at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Cilk for example is just a few functions you can use from *inside* C code.
> How is sequoia going to beat Cilk?

I'm still getting familiar with Sequoia, so I didn't understand at first that
Sequoia is a variant of C.  It uses the C preprocessor, and both limits
and extends C syntax.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/sequoia/cgi-bin/node/100

I wasn't surprised to see them acknowledge Cilk in their paper.

-- 
Andrew Shewmaker



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