I recently discovered the nice multiprocessing module in python, and did some quick python-fu so the gen_table.py script. The script can now have several GPUs computing a single table concurrently. This feature is kind of in "beta", but interested parties can mail me and get a copy.
This is just intended as a temporary fix, till I am done with a rewrite, where multi GPU support becomes part of the shared library. The new scripts (even the one in svn) also supports "pausing", just drop a file /tmp/a5.pause and the script will enter pause state after some time. When the file is deleted, operation resumes with no loss of data. The next feature should be auto-pause based on exterior temperature (from online weather services) ... but this can be easily made using the existing pause mechanism. I had -26 degrees C outside this morning, and 300W of A5/1 is nice supplementary heating :-) f _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
