Re: Parallel processing
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- Subject: [mg100260] Re: Parallel processing
- From: Bob F <deepyogurt at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:59:59 -0400 (EDT)
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On May 28, 4:50 am, dh <d... at metrohm.com> 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 According to this bit of Wolfram news from July 12, 2005 at http://www.wolfram.com/news/mathematica52.html: Mathematica 5.2 also supports automatically threaded numerical linear algebra on all mainstream platforms, enabling linear algebra operations to automatically run in parallel on all available processor cores whether multiple or multicore CPUs. Mainstream multicore-based systems are now available and are expected to be ubiquitous by early next year, including in notebooks and entry-level systems. -Bob