Changing octave to exploit multi-core hardware

[Michael Creel]

Leonardo Ecco wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> have you guys considered modifying the gnu octave code in order to take
> advantage of multi-core hardware? 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.
> 
> 
> 

There are several options for using multiple cores, including linking to a
threaded linear algebra library, and directly using MPI. I find that using
MPI works very well, by way of the MPITB package. One nice side effect is
that the code is portable to a cluster.
M.
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