[daip] AIPS on a linux cluster

[Eric Greisen]

Emmanuel Momjian writes:
 > Dear AIPS folks,
 > 
 > I am working on a huge VLBA data set, and the desktop I currently use is 
 > taking a long time to perform some AIPS tasks. My desktop is LINUX pc, 
 > with 2.8 GHz pentium 4 processor and 1 Gb memory.
 > 
 > Here at Arecibo, we have a LINUX cluster with 5  or so linux boxes. Each 
 > pc in the cluster has a dual 2.4 GHz processor and 2 Gb memory.
 > 
 > My question to you is if I can use AIPS on a linux cluster to shorten 
 > the data reduction time? If so, is there something specific that needs 
 > to be done in AIPS setup or any other place to use the cluster?

AIPS is not at this time designed to go parallel.  You are doing about
as well as you are going to do unless you can see ways to run tasks by
hand in parallel.

Eric Greisen