Re: Octave Interpreter

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On 6 Oct 2014, at 14:07, Stefan Seefeld <address@hidden> wrote:

> Right. I think pure data parallelism as done with MPI isn't very
> practical for an interpreter, as lots of commands typed interactively
> aren't meant to be executed in parallel. On the other hand, spawning
> other processes for a single parallel operation may not be practical
> either. Perhaps something like a thread-pool pattern would work, where
> processes are spawned upfront, but are kept in stand-by mode until a
> parallel region is entered where data (and computation) is allocated to
> them.

I have been interested in this project myself, 
what I thought of is something like:

  [out1, out2] = mpirun (numproc, function, input1, input2, ...)

to run an MPI based Octave function from the Octave prompt.
Would that suit you as well?

>    Stefan
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