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Re: Can I have multiple threads in IDL? [message #40457 is a reply to message #40381]

Wed, 11 August 2004 07:19

Marc Reinig
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Registered: June 2004

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Liam,
I'll try to get to the source today.

Thanks for your help.

Marco

"Liam Gumley" <Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu> wrote in message
news:cfaq0v$a04$1@news.doit.wisc.edu...
> Marc Reinig wrote:
>> We're currently running a very large computational program on a
>> multiprocessor machine. When the FFT portion runs, the CPU load on all
8
>> processors spikes, so IDL is making use of them, life is good.
>>
>> However, we have another portion of the code that dose a massive nested
loop
>> on some arrays, but the operation is carried out on a very small subset
of
>> the array and IDL uses only a single processor. It could be easily
broken
>> into threads if we were writing in C to allow the OS (Windows Server
2003)
>> to run the threads simultaneously.
>>
>> We would like to break this processing into multiple threads in IDL so
that
>> the task can be run on the other 7 processors in a similar manner. Is
there
>> a way to create and run a thread in IDL?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Marc Reinig
>> UCO/Lick
>> Laboratory for Adaptive Optics
>
> Marc,
>
> Any chance you could post the code for the loop operation? Someone might
> be able to offer suggestions on how to convert it to array operations
> (and thus enable multi-threading).
>
> Cheers,
> Liam.
> Practical IDL Programming
> http://www.gumley.com/

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