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Re: Parallel processing

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• Subject: [mg100267] Re: Parallel processing
• From: Michael Weyrauch <michael.weyrauch at gmx.de>
• Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 21:01:14 -0400 (EDT)
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• Reply-to: michael.weyrauch at gmx.de

Well, I know (from experience) that linear algebra routines were
paralellized already prior to version 7. So, when I used NDSolve
to solve large systems of coupled ordinary differential equations,
which makes heavy use of such routines, the calculation actually
used (magically, because I did not have to do anything for that)
parallel processing even in version 5.2 and 6.

David Bailey schrieb:
> dh wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running version 7.01 on a quad core CPU. I am doing some heavy 
>> calculations but was too lazy to use any special commands for 
>> parallelization.
>>
>> However, to my surprise, when I check the performance I see that all 4 
>> kernels a busy calculating.
>>
>> Does anybody have any info about this automatic parallelization of 
>> Mathematica?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
> Prior to 7.0 there was talk that certain cpu-intensive algorithms would 
> make use of multiple cores where appropriate - presumable they still do. 
> Where does your program spend its time?
> 
> David Bailey
> http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
>