RE: Parallel Octave

[Tim Rueth]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:55 AM
> To: Andy Buckle
> Cc: address@hidden; soroushmehr
> Subject: Re: Parallel Octave
> 
> 
> On Dec 15, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Andy Buckle wrote:
> 
> >> I am a PhD student of IUT. I've installed parallel package 
> of Octave 
> >> on a laptop .
> >> I am going to run a parallel program on this computer.
> >> Is there any way to run a parallel program on just one machine?
> > 
> > Set up virtual machines perhaps? Why would you want to?
> 
> I'd assumed he wanted to run in parallel on different cores.
> 
> Ben

I routinely do this.  I'll initiate as many as 4 separate octave sessions in
parallel (in Windows 7).  Then, I'll call up Task Manager and watch all of
the cores go to work.  (I haven't tried parcellfun, fork, or any fancy stuff
yet.)  I have a 4-core Intel i7 hyperthreadding CPU, so I can see up to 8
"processors" working in parallel from 4 Octave sessions.  I also overclock
my cores by 35%, so I use RealTemp to watch the temperature of the 4 cores.
Smokin'!

--Tim