[daip] Question: aips on multiple core, shared memory pcs?

[Ian McHardy]

Hi Eric,

Many thanks for that speedy reply.

Does that mean that we could, say, run two or more aips sessions happily 
at the same time on a dual quad core machine, or even that, within one 
aips session, one could run a few (ie more than 2) different aips tasks?

thanks,
Ian

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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Eric Greisen wrote:

> McHardy I.M. wrote:
>> Hi Eric et al,
>>
>> Do you happen to know if aips works well on the new multiple-core, shared memory machines?
>> We were considering buying some Transtech dual quad-core (ie 8 cores in total) pcs which share 16G of memory. Is aips good on those machines?
>
> At present we do not do anything in AIPS to take advantage
> of this architecture.  It is our plan to begin testing the
> compiler options that allow it to go multi-thread and the like.
> That said, AIPS runs well on these machines, utilizing the greater
> memory when needed and letting the I/O be handled by a second "cpu"
> achieving some parallelization thereby.
>
> Eric Greisen
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