Using OpenMP at work
One of the developers in another group saw my OpenMP presentation and decided it would fit into the design of his current project. They are using an eight core machine to do spectral analysis and need to run a dozen or so models against the data. With much less work than it would take to multi-thread by hand, in fact it may only take a day or two including testing, we expect to get at least a factor of five improved run time performance. The hardest part may be convincing the client that using of OpenMP is not too esoteric.
June 12th, 2011 at 8:36 am
At this point it is interesting to see if Amazon EC2 might not be a better choice. One can fire up hundreds of instances and run the data. Might be easier to manage than trying to get the multi-threading right.