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Re: Multi-core Support in Mathematica 5.2

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• Subject: [mg74135] Re: Multi-core Support in Mathematica 5.2
• From: "Neri" <nkafkafi at yahoo.com>
• Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:03:15 -0500 (EST)
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Those functions that are parallelized in the 5.2, and supposedly run
on more than one core simultaneously, do they run in a single thread?

Since it is demonstratively possible to parallelize these functions
(in one thread or more) why isn't it possible to parallelize a
function like Table? If I wrote a Table function with the index
running from 1 to 20, isn't it possible to run 1 to 10 in one core and
11 to 20 in another core?

Thanks,
Neri

> Here is a link with some details:
>
> http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin52/multicore.html
>
> I suspect it is hard to parallelise ordinary code - even functional code
> - because I can't imagine the kernel can run on more than one thread!
>
> David Baileyhttp://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
>

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