From help-request at octave dot org Thu Sep 29 12:41:49 2005 Subject: Re: MPI (was Re: BIG libraries with self-compiled version) From: Peter Soendergaard To: "John W. Eaton" Cc: Fredrik Lingvall , Michael Creel , help@octave.org, Javier Fernandez Baldomero Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:39:46 +0200 (CEST) It is possible to compile ATLAS exactly for use on multi-cpu shared memory machines. The code uses pthreads. I have not done it myself, but it should say in the documentation how to do it. This should be a very easy way to use more CPUs. I think that simply linking Octave to a pthreads enabled ATLAS library would be sufficient. The interfaces should be the exact same as the single processor library. Cheers, Peter. On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, John W. Eaton wrote: > On 29-Sep-2005, Fredrik Lingvall wrote: > > | You have to register to see the license text. You can use it freely for > | academic, research, experimental or personal use but it is not open > | source. I've cut out the text from their web-page below. > > Then we should not this can't be used as a part of Octave, since the > license is not compatible with the GPL. > > I don't think we should encourage its use since it is not free sofware. > > jwe > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------