[scilab-Users] Parallel Computing in Scilab

[Samuel GOUGEON]

  ----- Message d'origine -----
De : Antoine Monmayrant
Date : 21/01/2011 12:58:
> Le 21/01/2011 12:03, Samuel GOUGEON a écrit :
>>  Hello,
>>
>> ----- Message d'origine -----
>> De : Itai Njanji
>> Date : 19/01/2011 21:11:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I am currently trying to convert my matlab code to Scilab that was using 
>>> Matlab Parallel Computing Toolbox.  Is it  is possible to do distributed 
>>> parallel computing in Scilab? If yes, how difficult is it to convert Matlab 
>>> code that was using Distributed Parallel Computing Server to Scilab? Any 
>>> comments are appreciated, even just  suggestions or websites that can help 
>>> are also appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>
>> AFAIK, up to now, both PVM and parallel_run() cannot be used with Windows OS.
> I don't know for PVM, but we use parallel_run() on Windows XP.
> It works well for embarrassingly parallel tasks (aka running N times the same 
> function with different inputs).
>
> Antoine

Really? What about that : http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8361#c1
Did Scilab changed on this topic since 11/2010 ?
The help page updated by Allan Cornet still displays:
/Limitations
In this current version of Scilab, parallel_run uses only one core on Windows 
platforms.
/
Regards
Samuel

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