Changing octave to exploit multi-core hardware

[Leonardo Ecco]

Thanks Michael,

I'll investigate the options and try to write some code...

L.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Michael Creel <michael.creel at uab.es> wrote:

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> 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.
> >
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> >
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> 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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