Changing octave to exploit multi-core hardware

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Mar-2008, Leonardo Ecco wrote:

| have you guys considered modifying the gnu octave code in order to take
| advantage of multi-core hardware?

In what way?

| I'm a graduate student in computer
| science, and i'm currently taking a course on multi-core systems - our final
| project is to select an open source software and change it to exploit
| parallelism. I'd like to know if there is someone already working on this
| issue. If not, i plan to start next week.

At what level do you want to do parallel operations?  Matrix
operations?  Loops in the scripting language?  Something else?

| PS: Is there any mentor organization related to GNU Octave at the "Google
| Summer of Code" ?!

Not this year.

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jwe