Hello, Does anybody know how easy it is to get fipy installed such that it makes use of both CPUs in a dual CPU workstation? The OS would be Ubuntu or OpenSUSE.
Will fipy use both CPUs out of the box? Or would I need some sophistication to get it to work? I know nothing about Trilinos etc. I don't currently have the workstation. I was somewhat interested in buying something like the used workstation on the ithaca ny craigslist (specs given below) since it seems like it might be able to do fipy phase field calculations for larger problems because of what seems like relatively numerous cores and threads, but I would not want to buy a such a device, if there was a chance I would be unable to configure fipy to make full use of it. I have already observed that with my single CPU system (i5-3550p), fipy seems to max out its four cores in ubuntu and opensuse without any additional setup. Specs for the Ithaca Craigslist example workstation: Dual Xeon E5-2680 2.7 GHz / 3.5 GHz Turbo (8 cores, 16 with HT each or 16 cores, 32 with HT total) 64GB (8 x 8GB) PC3 Registered ECC Memory This is something I have been curious about for a long time... Thanks.
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