On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:37:20AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
Is GRASS 5 threaded so it can run on a dual/multi-processor machine, and
take advantage of more than a single CPU?
No.
Though you can run multiple commands which and they will utilise
more as one CPU.
If not, is this something to be added in the future?
I am not aware of any concrete plans to add this to GRASS.
But if somebody volenteers to do it, it will be done.
Bernhard
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On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:15:39AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:37:20AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Is GRASS 5 threaded so it can run on a dual/multi-processor machine, and
> take advantage of more than a single CPU?
No.
Though you can run multiple commands which and they will utilise
more as one CPU.
> If not, is this something to be added in the future?
I am not aware of any concrete plans to add this to GRASS.
In fact there are plans to add such functionality (perhaps replacing
the internal math library links to a multi-processor supporting
library or rewriting CPU-intensive interpolation algorithms).
(New) GRASS programmers who are interested to start a project for
this, please join the GRASS developers mailing list:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grassdevel.html
Regards,
Markus