Re: Multicore Calculations
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- Subject: [mg60809] Re: [mg60769] Multicore Calculations
- From: Jeff Bryant <jeffb at wolfram.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:41:25 -0400 (EDT)
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The results you get depend on a couple of factors. I'll provide a
couple comments and perhaps other, more qualified people can respond
directly if necessary for additional details.
What platform (CPU and OS) are you running on? That will determine if
a) we support multiple processors/cores
and
b) if top shows threads independently of their parent process.
Also, vector-vector (BLAS level 1) and matrix-vector operations (BLAS
level 2) don't parallelize terribly well, so there will be little
benefit to multiple processors for those types of operations, anyway.
-Jeff
Manuel Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i'm wondering, how one can convince the MathKernel to do a numerical
> linear algebra calculation on two processors at the same time in 5.2.
>
> Am I right, that this should be computed on two processors (if
> available):
>
> vec1 = Table[Random[], {i, 5000000}];
> vec2 = Table[Random[], {i, 5000000}];
>
> While[True,Dot[vec1, vec2]]
>
> or a big matrix and a vector
>
> matrix.vector;
>
> Anyways, I see in top only one kernel running. There is only one thread.
> Are there different binaries for the multicore and the singlecore
> version?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Manuel
>
>
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