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Re: IDL with multiple processors [message #13712 is a reply to message #13701]

Fri, 04 December 1998 00:00

korpela
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In article <3667038C.1474744F@lanl.gov>,
David M. Schmidt <dschmidt@lanl.gov> wrote:
> We recently tested the speed of a non-graphical, numerical IDL code run
> on two different Linux systems. The system with 2 350 MHz processors
> and SDRAM was about the same speed or a bit slower than the system with
> 1 233 MHz processor and EDORAM.

IDL is pretty much single threaded. If you've got two processors, it's up
to you to use 'em. You'd be suprised what you can do if you try.....
This works under sunos... (you need to write your own kill proceedure,
though. That's not too hard.)

pid=call_external("/usr/lib/libc.so.1.9","_fork") ; your libc name may vary
if pid then begin
do some processing
kill,pid
endif else begin
do some other processing
dummy=call_external("/usr/lib/libc.so.1.9","_wait")
endelse

You can even use the "varray" package at my web site for interprocess
communication. (Otherwise changes to variables in one process do not
affect the other process.)

I don't suppose RSI would be willing to add fork, kill, and wait to the
language. :) It's also probably illegal to use fork on a machine with
a floating license.

Eric

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		Re: IDL with multiple processors By: David Schmidt on Mon, 07 December 1998 00:00
		Re: IDL with multiple processors By: steinhh on Sat, 05 December 1998 00:00
		Re: IDL with multiple processors By: steinhh on Sat, 05 December 1998 00:00
		Re: IDL with multiple processors By: korpela on Fri, 04 December 1998 00:00
		Re: IDL with multiple processors By: thompson on Fri, 04 December 1998 00:00
		Re: IDL with multiple processors By: steinhh on Fri, 04 December 1998 00:00
		Re: IDL with multiple processors By: korpela on Fri, 04 December 1998 00:00

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