I use octave to run fluid mechanics flow solvers. These codes rely heavily on fft and the related scripts. In the development phase, I don't include parallel coding. As I keep an eye on a system monitor during execution I notice that for long periods nearly all the processors are busy, when no other processes (that I know of) are running apart from my octave simulation. Is octave clever enough to know how to use several processors? Are details described anywhere?
This is a good occasion to thank Octave developers for 4.2.0 I rely heavily on graphics, and have found the OpenGL toolkit to be almost foolproof, with great enhancements. I have moved to make a contributions
Thanks Octave Team