darktable uses parallelisation internally for (at least almost) every image operation. Most likely you do not want to run multiple darktable instances in parallel (memory bandwidth, cache locality, but i recommend you to do a few test-runs.
Regards, Markus Am 12.03.2015 um 19:19 schrieb Matt Kitcat: > Hello all. > I was wondering what sort of spec I should be looking for when choosing > machines to render raw frames to openEXR from the command line only. Should I > be going for high end graphics cards or concentrate more on ram and processor > power. > In the old days of dcraw I used to limit the maximum number of images to > process to slightly fewer that the number of cores. So on an 8 core machine I > would limit it to 6 images at one time. This seemed to be the most efficient > in terms of speed/image throughput. I am not sure how Darktable manages > multicore processors and what sort of policy I should adopt. I want to > achieve the maximum number of images per minute so I would be interested in > peoples thoughts. > > Many thanks > > Matt > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
