I think i have to do more philosophy about scalability..

[Horizon68]

Hello..


I think i have to do more philosophy about scalability..

I said the following:

"The actual scalability of my Parallel Sort Library in the mergesort
mode will go to around 12X"


In political philosophy we have what we call the "concept" of democracy,
but we have to know that the concept of democracy that is understood by
our mind and consciousness is a "running" concept of democracy, i mean
a running concept of democracy in our mind.

That's the same for software scalability, software scalability is not
just the concept, software scalability is also the running concept of
software scalability, and this running concept of software scalability
is the new "speed" of the software relatively to the old speed, and the
old speed can be fixed here or there in the reference of time, this is
why when i say that:

"The actual scalability of my Parallel Sort Library in the mergesort
mode will go to around 12X"

It also means the "running" concept of scalability.


So read my below previous writing to understand more:


More explanation about scalability..

As you have noticed i said below the following:

"The actual scalability of my Parallel Sort Library in the mergesort
mode will go to around 12X"

You have to distinguish between the scalability that is the combination
of scalability of hardware and software, and the scalability that is
only software or only hardware.

So you have to know that i am speaking below about the "total"
scalability of both the hardware(from one channel memory to 8 channels
memory) and software on actual Intel and AMD processors, but 3D stacking
of memory will give much more scalability.


Read again:

About Multi-channel memory architecture and my Parallel Sort Library..

On actual Intel and AMD processors data is moved from and to main memory
only in 64 bytes chunks, so in a 8 channels of a Multi-channel memory
architecture in a ganged mode, i think that the memory speed of
my Parallel Sort library in the mergesort mode will go to 8X speed,
and the actual scalability of my Parallel Sort Library in the mergesort
mode will go to around 12X. So i will advice you to use the ganged mode
of the Multi-channel memory architecture because it works great.

My Parallel Sort Library was updated to version 3.64

I have enhanced it more, and i think it is stable and fast
and it scales more.

You can download it from:

https://sites.google.com/site/scalable68/parallel-sort-library


Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.