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In article <1isf54INN1p3@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, gates@cscsparc.larc.nasa.gov (Ray Gates) writes:
> Just talking to a computer vendor who mentioned something about Parallel AVS????
> Anybody out there ever heard of this???  Anyone know anything about it????
> Any info would be greatly appreciated.....thanks in advance.......
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From the AVS User's Guide, pg 3-18, in "Starting AVS":

-parallel n

Sets the maximum nunmber of module processes that will attempt to execute in
parallel at any one time.  The default is 1 (no parallelization).  You should
set this figure intelligently for the system(s) you are running on.  If two
processors are available (a two-processor system, or a local and a remote
system) then this figure can reasonably be set to 2.

...

Modules must be in separate processes to execute in parallel.  Most modules
supplied with AVS are combined into a single executable that runs as a single
process ["mongo"?].  Thus, they will not run in parallel unless they are
divided into separate processes.  This may be done wholesale with the -separate
option (which may greatly increase memory utilization), or precisely using the
Network Editor's module group editing facility.

Rob Lake
BP Research
lake@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com