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Re: Maximum Variable Size in Octave
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Tal Rusak |
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Re: Maximum Variable Size in Octave |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:40:47 -0400 (EDT) |
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Hi,
Thank you for your fast responses.
Przemek,
I am just wondering how you were able to use a 10 GB array if the I/O
components of Octave are only 32-bit systems. Wouldn't that cap the
array size at 2 GB? Did you modify any I/O code?
Thanks,
Tal
> On 4-Sep-2008, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>
> | I am planning memory-intensive calculations in Octave and/or Matlab.
> | The Mathwork has published the following document describing the
> | maximum variable size in Matlab on various platforms:
> | http://www.mathworks.com/support/tech-notes/1100/1110.html
> | Is there an equivalent document for Octave?
> |
> | For what it is worth, I compiled octave on a 64-bit itanium system with
> 32 GB
> | of memory and allocated over 10 GB arrays.
>
> If you use --enable-64 (with care to ensure that the libraries you
> link with are also compiled properly for 64-bit indexing; it's still
> an experimental feature) then you should be able to allocate arrays up
> to roughly 2^63 bytes if your operating system will allow it. But you
> can't read or write arrays larger than approximately 2^31 bytes since
> no one has yet done the work to fix the I/O parts of Octave to be
> 64-bit aware.
>
> On 32-bit systems, you can allocate arrays up to approximately 2^31
> bytes, so that is 2^23 double precision elements. If you have enough
> memory, you can allocate many arrays of this size, but any single
> array can't be larger than 2^31 bytes.
>
> jwe
>