| Re: IDL on Dual processor Linux SMP box? [message #11966 is a reply to message #11899] |
Fri, 05 June 1998 00:00  |
Brian Guarraci
Messages: 3
Registered: June 1998
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Is the IDL server multi-threaded? If not, you could write a proxy for
IDL servers that handling all IDL requests and spawned off IDL servers
as needed - assuming you had a licensing to support that.
brian
Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan wrote:
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> I think the licence policy is "one licence per screen and
> user". A single user working on a single screen should thus
> only occupy a single licence, even with several IDL processes.
> Two users on a single screen (crowded office :-) might occupy
> two licences, and a single user on two screens would occupy
> two licences, AFAIK.
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> As for the benefits of multiple processors, I sometimes
> run IDL in Remote Procedure Call (RPC) server mode to use
> it as a "plotting engine" for my C programs. This would
> (at least in theory) allow your C program to go on with
> it's business (on one processor) while IDL is plotting the
> results you just sent. The problem is though, that the RPC
> call probably waits for the plotting command to finish
> successfully...? Maybe it's possible to set the timeout
> to 0 seconds, but... It would be nice to be able to do
> RPC calls concurrently in some cleaner way.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stein Vidar
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