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Subject: Re: Question re multiprocessor generation of Nalimov EGTs

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 08:58:31 01/15/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 11:49:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 15, 2004 at 09:21:25, GuyHaworth wrote:
>
>>I'd be interested to know - if you have used more than a 2-processor machine to
>>run Eugene Nalimov's EGT-generation code - how many processors you used:  SMP
>>machines presumably.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Guy
>
>I don't believe his code does a parallel generation, because the algorithm
>itself is basically serial.  You might run two at a time to generate two
>separate tables, of course, but that might swamp the I/O and memory since the
>memory requirement is huge when you mmap() files into your virtual address
>space.

Code does parallel generation, and I run it on a quad-CPU system using all 4
CPUs.

Thanks,
Eugene



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