On 10/27/2011 8:56 AM, Raymond Toy wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Renante Mangumpit
> <recmanqc at yahoo.com <mailto:recmanqc at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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> Sir:
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> Please can I ask a couple of information about the
> above-mentioned Software?
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> 1. Does it support GPU acceleration?
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> No. Well, I suppose it could if the underlying Lisp used the GPU.
> Seems unlikely.
Most lisps support a "foreign function interface" by which a program
written in C or another language can be invoked. Given suitable support
in the hardware and operating system, lisp (and thus Maxima) could use it.
Using a GPU for executing run-of-the-mill lisp stuff doesn't seem
attractive at first glance.
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> 2. Does it support distributed networking? (running the same task
> in parallel computing to speed up the process.)
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> No, not directly. But maxima has sockets so you could set things up
> yourself to distribute your computing across a network via sockets.
Multiprocessing is not standardized but many lisp implementations have
one or more versions of this.
RJF
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> Ray
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