On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > How does this sound. > > 1) We add an environment variable SAGE_ATLAS_THREADS > 2) If unset, then the behavior is unchanged, so we build an unthreaded > ATLAS. > 3) If set to "auto": > > $ export SAGE_ATLAS_THREADS=auto > > then we let ATLAS automatically determine the number of threads. (I think > that is what ATLAS determines as the number of processors on your system. > IIRC, on 't2.math' this was 128). > > 4) If set to an integer N, > > $ export SAGE_ATLAS_THREADS=8 > > we use N (in this case 8) threads.
+1 for this plan. Thanks for looking into this; I'm looking forward to seeing what ATLAS does on my desktop. Carl -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
