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Re: Multi-core techniques [message #70425 is a reply to message #70424]

Thu, 15 April 2010 19:14

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Tim B writes:

> My thoughts are:
>
> - use C(?) to manage forking separate processes that start IDL and
> pass parameters to the
> appropriate procedure to run in IDL
>
> - run a number of IDL programs in parallel, the same code but
> processing different
> temporal regions of the dataset. I can start up IDL in different
> windows on an 8-core
> machine and each seems to be a separate process.
>
> - use a different language/architecture completely :-)
>
> I'd be interested to hear from anyone else trying to take advantage of
> multicore CPU's..

You might be interested in reading about what Tech-X has
done along these lines to speed up IDL processing:

http://www.txcorp.com/products/FastDL/

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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		Re: Multi-core techniques By: Juggernaut on Fri, 16 April 2010 03:49
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		Re: Multi-core techniques By: Tim B on Fri, 16 April 2010 01:19
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		Re: Multi-core techniques By: David Fanning on Thu, 15 April 2010 19:14
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