On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:52 PM, eschardt <
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> Is it true that parfor is the same as for?
Yes, parallizing the Octave interpreter has proven to be a difficult task.
> I don't get any speedup when i tell it the number of cores to use. If there
> is no use for parfor, is there some other similar function that I could use?
There are some octave-forge packages that provide parallel support.
The general package has pararrayfun and parcellfun[1]. The openmpi_ext
package provides access to MPI from Octave[2].
[1]
http://octave.sourceforge.net/general/overview.html#ParallelComputing[2]
http://octave.sourceforge.net/openmpi_ext/index.htmlMax Brister
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