[vtkusers] Threads, MultiCore and VTK

[Mike Jackson]

I was just wondering a few things about the subject matter. They are  
kinda related but I'll just list my questions and kinda people can  
comment:

1} With the advent of multi-core CPUs, can VTK take advantage of  
these additional cores? Like I could if I was using MPI on a cluster?

2} If I were to start writing multi-threaded filters, what/whose  
threads package should I use? Boost? Posix?

3} Has anyone written any multi-threaded filters that I could take a  
look at?

4} What are the Gotchas of using threads with VTK?

Thanks for any insight.
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Mike Jackson
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