From help-request at octave dot org Fri Feb 18 21:05:29 2005
Subject: Re: MPI support on MacOS X
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg at arc dot nasa dot gov>
Cc: "help at octave dot org" <help@octave.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:10:40 -0500

According to this message:

	http://lists.apple.com/archives/scitech/2002/Dec/msg00058.html

you should get (a) for free if you compile octave correctly.

- Paul

On Feb 18, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

> I can't remember if this was ever answered, but how would I compile 
> octave
> to support multiple processors on a) a dual G5 mac and b) a much 
> larger (256
> to 512 processor system) so that things such as matrix algebra get
> "parallelized" without me having to do anything except run the command 
> as
> usual (e.g. I don't want to get into MPI code, I just want it to use 
> MPs
> whenever appropriate -- matlab and idl do this out of the box, as far 
> as I
> know) -- on a related note, DOES octave have these optimizations 
> available?
>
> --j
>
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