From: Matthew Brand Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: parallel matlab (or octave or scilab) Date: 20 Dec 1998 06:45:43 GMT Organization: MERL Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <75i6en$hjc$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu We're looking for recommendations of a software/hardware combination for matlab-like work on a parallel machine. We have matlab running on an 8-cpu Onyx, where it is automatically parallelized by the SGI OS. Needless to say, there isn't much speed-up, since matlab is mostly single-threaded and Onyx parallelism isn't well enough synced for most matrix operations. We are considering buying special hardware, e.g., a Beowulf or a multi-CPU box. However, we need a matlab-like package that can properly exploit it at the fine-grained (matrix) and/or coarse-grained (thread) levels. Has anyone had good experiences with some combination? Since we are a research lab, our priorities are to avoid time-sinks like programming or software/hardware maintenance. Please send email; I'll summarize and post. --Matt Brand -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel