Dear Alexander Thank you very much for your helpful message. I have a question about your last message. How to use master-salve communication? On the other hand, I need to use 5 CPU's, but MPI in ParGAP used 2 CPU's. Is there any command to solve this problem?
Best regards Sara On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Alexander Konovalov <al...@mcs.st-and.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear Sara, > > > On 5 Jan 2016, at 10:50, Sara Yaftian <sara.yaft...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear Forum > > > > I have a question about ParGAP. > > I installed parGAP by the following command > > > > cd pargap > > ./configure > > make > > > > and then I need mpi and I installed mpi. > > Finally I paralleled a GAP program on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) by the > > following command: > > > > mpiexe -np 5 ./pargap.sh > > Thank you for your question, and Happy New Year to you too! The above > steps seem to be correct. The rest depends on what "myprogram.txt" is > doing - it is quite common that when one tries to parallelise the code > then the first version of the parallel code runs slower than the > sequential one. > > Also, the phrase "I paralleled a GAP program" sounds a bit ambiguous, so > just in case: what > > mpiexe -np 5 ./pargap.sh > > command is doing is that it starts several copies of GAP. One of them is > called 'master', and it provides the GAP command line interface and > communicates with all the others, called 'slaves'. If you will call > > Read("myprogram.txt"); > > but the code there does not use any master-slave communication, it will > just perform the calculation on the master. > > Best wishes > Alexander > > > > > > > > > > > > when GAP run then I typed Read("myprogram.txt"); > > > > I am not sure my commands are correct or not because my laptop use 5 of > CPU > > but the speed of my program has not changed. Would you please help me? > > > > I wish you have a very happy New Year 2016. > > > > Best regards > > Sara > > > _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum