[scilab-Users] possible to select a core ?

[Mathieu Dubois]

Hello,

The upcoming 5.3 version will have a parallel_run function. I have never 
used it (and the help in the beta seems complicated) but you may have a 
look at it.

Mathieu

On 08/31/2010 01:01 PM, Antoine Monmayrant wrote:
> Le 31/08/2010 12:57, Paul CARRICO a écrit :
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I don't know if my question is interesting (or stupid) since I'm not 
>> skilled enough ...
>>
>> ... it's rather common to have several cores in a processor (nay 
>> several processors with several cores) =>  I would like to know if 
>> it's possible to select a core for a specific calculation ?
>>
>> (I had a look in the help documentation, but ???)
>>
>> My idea is the following (throughout an example).
>>
>> 2 (and more)  loops that can be performed in parallel :
>>
>> For i = 1 : n
>>
>>       A = .....
>>
>> end
>>
>> For i = 1 : n
>>
>>       B = .....
>>
>> end
>>
>> Loop 1 is perform a the core 1, loop 2 on the 2 and so on ...
>>
>> I noticed that a single core/processor is used ... of course the goal 
>> is to increase speed up !
>>
>> Paul
>>
> There is proactive for that purpose.
>
> http://www.scilab.org/projects/collaborations/proactive
>
> http://proactive.inria.fr/index.php?page=scilab
>
> Never used it, I don't know if it can fit your needs.
>
> Antoine
>

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