Re: Octave on IRIX64 - Origin 2000 8 way

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Brett L. Trotter wrote:
> I have an Origin 2000 8x250mhz box and an Origin 200 2x270mhz. I'd like to 
> know what i really need to do to take advantage of those machines either 
> individually or as a group.
>
> I saw some links regarding parallelized Octave, but those seem to be MPI 
> based. While the Origin series machines can use MPI, it seems a little 
> wasteful considering the distributed shared memory model.
>
> So what package(s) and/or compile options do I need to really get Octave up to 
> its full potential?
>
> And a second question, are there some good octave benchmarks around so that I 
> could demonstrate the speed of the 8 way SGI box versus a 2 way Sun box?
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies!

I believe that SGI has a optimized BLAS/LAPACK libraries which can take
advantage of multiple CPUs. If you can compile Octave with those libraries,
you should get an advantage in most matrix algebra applications.

Sincerely,

Dmitri.
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