Re: MPI (was Re: BIG libraries with self-compiled version)

[Peter Soendergaard]

It is possible to compile ATLAS exactly for use on multi-cpu shared memory 
machines. The code uses pthreads. I have not done it myself, but it should 
say in the documentation how to do it.

This should be a very easy way to use more CPUs. I think that simply 
linking Octave to a pthreads enabled ATLAS library would be sufficient. 
The interfaces should be the exact same as the single processor library.

Cheers,

Peter.

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 29-Sep-2005, Fredrik Lingvall wrote:
>
> | You have to register to see the license text. You can use it freely for
> | academic, research, experimental or personal use but it is not open
> | source. I've cut out the text from their web-page below.
>
> Then we should not this can't be used as a part of Octave, since the
> license is not compatible with the GPL.
>
> I don't think we should encourage its use since it is not free sofware.
>
> jwe
>
>
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