On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Yi Qiang wrote: > On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> >> Yes, but we don't want each worker noticing that there are, say, 4 >> cores and so using a parallel algorithm despite the fact that you >> started up 4 separate workers. > > I think that the workers should actually yield to any other process, > sort of like BOINC. > > Yi
I agree (in most cases), but this is completely orthogonal to the point that running 16 threads on 4 cores is going to be a lot more overhead than running 4 threads on 4 machines (and the parallel algorithm might not even be as efficient as the serial one). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
