Re: parallel Octave

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden> wrote:
>>If a simple SMP parallelism would suffice your needs, I have recently
>>contributed the parcellfun (a parallel cellfun) function into
>>OctaveForge/main/general.
>>It is simple to use and quite efficient on systems implementing
>>efficient process forking, such as GNU/Linux.
>
> That's nice, thanks!  I guess that its main usage is to exploit
> multicore and multicpu machines, right?

Yes.

>
> Oh, and by the way, the documentations seems to imply the opposite of
> what you wrote above, that is, seems to say that Linux has not an
> efficient fork implementation.
>

Thanks, fixed.

cheers

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