Given that we don't do anything special with that library we should probably point the user to its documentation rather than write something ourselves. On Mar 3, 2011 3:55 PM, "David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > On 3 March 2011 21:56, Calcpage <calcp...@aol.com> wrote: >> Well, I'd like to expose my Computing Independent Study (aka CIStheta) class >> to MPI. I was wondering if it is easier to set up under SAGE. >> I have run live Linux CD solutions for clustering for years now such as >> ClusterKnoppix, BCCD and Quantian for openMosix and PVM. That was years ago. >> More recently we've used parallelKnoppix, pelicanHPC and ClusterByNight for >> MPI. I was thinking of setting up something more permanent, however. >> BTW, our adhoc cluster has 25 64bit dualcore AMD Athlons running 64bit >> Ubuntu Desktop over a gigE switch. I did a little benchmarking recently >> using pelicanHPC and ran 50 cores at about 24 GFLOPS. That's not fast for a >> cluster these days, but fine for educational demonstrations I think. Let's >> face it, IBM's Watson runs at 72 TFLOPS which 3000 times faster, but my >> cluster doesn't have to play Jeopardy! >> Regards, >> A. Jorge Garcia > > As I remarked on a comment on > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/10869 > > I feel the OpenMPI optional package needs to be documented better. > OpenMPI is an optional package in Sage, but there's no real clues how > to use it. No examples. > > Now compare that to the documentation for Mathematica on parallel computing > > http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ParallelTools/tutorial/Overview.html > > We have a library which should allow parallel computations, but > there's nothing to help a user achieve this. > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org
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