On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Andrew <andrew.mat...@sydney.edu.au> wrote: > I have access to a centos machine with many cores, so I want to start > writing parallelised code on it. This is probably naive, but is using the > code in sage.parallel the best way to write parallel code in sage?
It depends on what you are trying to do. For some computations, @parallel is the best possible way to do them, and for others it is the worst possible way. William > > I started using the @parallel decorator but then I found the optional > packages openmpi and mpi4py and wondered if it would be better to use these > instead, except it seems that the packages are no longer maintained (and > hence not useful?) as "new style" packages for them don't seem to exist. I > am confused, however, because mp4py is the main topic of the thematic > tutorial > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/thematic_tutorials/numerical_sage/parallel_computation.html > which suggests that it is still being used. > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
