Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Planning for the future

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:29:05PM -0500, Marcus Leech wrote:
> I'm currently doing some preliminary planning/budgeting for a
> significant project involving Gnu Radio:
> 
>      http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sbrac-astronomy/

> Right now, I'm getting by with a Pentium D 925 doing just fine with
> 8Mhz input bandwidth driving a sampled spectral display, and a total
> power display.  I wonder at what point the Gnu Radio stack will grow
> serious multi-threading capability (particularly in blocks like
> filters and FFTs), making multi-CPU systems a real bonus.

I expect to start on the "thread-per-block" scheduler either next week
or the week after.  This should enable us to make good use of SMP
machines.

> I think I recall that the re-write of the signal chain "plumbing" was
> partially to make multi-threading easier,
>   yes?

yes.

Eric