Re: Kernels dying on parallel code
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- Subject: [mg111436] Re: Kernels dying on parallel code
- From: Zach Bjornson <bjornson at mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 04:57:32 -0400 (EDT)
Do you have a proper license for 8 kernels? The normal home(?) license is only for four kernels; this may be Mathematica's way of saying you can only use four. Just a guess. Quoting Jon Harrop <usenet at ffconsultancy.com>: > I have an 8-core desktop composed of two quadcore Xeons. Whenever I try to > run parallel Mathematica 7.0.1 code it tries to spawn 8 kernels and then > four of them die, resulting in lots of communication errors. Is this normal? > > -- > Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. > http://www.ffconsultancy.com > > >