On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, James Parson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear sage-support group, > > Is it possible to have Sage use multiple cores when running it under > VMWare Player? I have a quad-core machine running Sage via the VMWare > player in Windows XP, and I have not been able to figure out how to > have it use more than a single core. > > I don't have any fancy parallelism in mind: I'd be happy, for example, > to have two disjoint worksheets open and running on separate cores at > the same time. When I open two worksheets now, the computations simply > split the time of one core. >
You might have to use vmware workstation in order to configure the virtual machine to use more than 1 core: http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ It cost money, but there is an easy 1-month free trial. You could try that in order to tell whether multiple cores will work with the virtual machine. It's *definitely* technically possible for a Sage installed into vmware workstation on windows to make use of multiple cores. My only worry might be that the particular vmware virtual machine (sage-vmware-*.zip) wouldn't support multiple cores for some reason. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
