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Hello Greg--

> 
> We have a multiprocessor ia64 machine that is being used for structure
> calculations in xplor.  However, I was unable to convince xplor to use
> multiple processors using the -num_threads option. 

- -num_threads enables a different level of parallelism used in ensemble
refinement calculations, not parallelism over independent structure
calculations. 

>  I hacked the xplor
> shell script slightly so that you can use the -parallel option with a
> multiprocessor box.  Basically, if the script encounters a machine name
> 'localhost' in the machines file, it will spawn a local job using /bin/sh
> rather than a remote job using rsh/ssh.  This allows me to run parallel
> structure calculations on a multiprocessor box using the same semantics
> and xplor scripts as a parallel computation.

thanks for this. It is a very good idea, and I will incorporate it into
the next release.

> 
> I have attached a patch file with the change to the xplor script.
> Out of curiosity, is there another way to do this?

not a good way- it requires rsh access. Your patch is a definite
improvement. 

regards--
Charles
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