is maxima suitable for multiprocessor computations?
Subject: is maxima suitable for multiprocessor computations?
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:00:57 -0500
On Nov 13, 2007 9:44 AM, Konovalov, Vadim Vladimirovich (Vadim)** CTR ** <
vkonovalov at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> I wonder whether Maxima could benefit of having more than 1 processor on
> the system.
>
Not likely. The algorithms in Maxima were not designed to be parallelized.
The front ends (xmaxima etc.) and the plotting packages do run in separate
processes, so in theory could benefit from more than one processor, but I
doubt the benefit would be meaningful.
-s