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Subject: Re: Question re multiprocessor generation of Nalimov EGTs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:19:39 01/15/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 11:58:31, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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


OK.  I had not looked it in ages.  You've been busier than I thought.

:)




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