Re: NG Lush and concurrency

> > For one thing, the low-level numerical functions could all
> > be implemented on top of an optimized library that can take
> > advantage of multiple cores/processors (e.g. Intel mkl,
> > Atlas,....).
>
> yes, that would be nice to have today already. MKL is not
> free though.

Right. But Atlas is.

> > For higher-level granularity, we could use MPI, and for
> > coarse-grained parallelism, we can run multiple Lush processes
> > through the remotelush class.
>
> i have no experience with those. aren't they in the same
> department in terms of granularity (I think of MPI as
> infrastructure for computing on clusters)?

MPI takes advantage of whatever architecture and
communication infrastructure it's running on
(cluster, SMP with shared memory,...).

  -- Yann



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