[daip] Parallel AIPS?

[Eric Greisen]

Karl Menten wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> Attached is an email announcing the opportunity to competitively get 
> time on super computers. I though about applying just to get acquainted 
> with "the system". However, this would really only make sense if some 
> sort of parallelized AIPS existed. Is anything useful available?
>
At present we are still anticipating rather than doing parallelization.
Bill Cotton's obit package has done some parallel tests and we expect to 
do some later.  But Bill's tests on multi-threading suggest that it has 
to be explicitly coded rather than automatic threading and the cluster 
computing also has to be explicitly coded.  I am considering designs in 
which a user can spread his problem to multiple cpus - but the user will 
have to control it I expect.  All this may not be of interest on a super 
computer.

Eric Greisen