Questions tagged [serial-processing]

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Concurrent or Serial queue for Reading or Writing

I'm writing an NSObject subclass similar to that of NSCache, which enables file caching to the disk on an iOS Device. I am in the process of writing the queues for (i) reading (ii) writing, but I wanted to make sure that the type of queue I will be…
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Accelerate a C program using pthreads

I'm new here, and also I'm relatively new in programming in general. I' ve writen a program in C and I need to accelerate it using pthreads. I've tried to do so using OpenMP, but I don't know how to debug it. Also I need to find out if the programm…
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Run serial jobs depending on maximum number of jobs using srun in slurm

Good day, Is there a way to set slurm that when the number of jobs exceed the maximum number of jobs a user have the rest will be performed serially automatically? For example; I have a maximum of 50 jobs that I can run at the same time. I want to…
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How to execute processes in serial and in parallel using python

How can i create a process execution in serial fashion vs parallel fashion? For example i want each process to execute the following python function: def execute(): time.sleep(random.randint(0,9)) If i run the processes like: for process in…
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Parallel processing vs Serial processing

I have an implementation of a generic Matrix and I create an option to use '*' and '+' operators with parallel processing and serial processing. parallel caluclations example: consider we have m1 and m2 matrices and m3 = m1 * m2. we calculate m3 row…
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How two-phase locking helps avoid the non-serializable schedule?

Now, I have two transactions here. The consistency requirement be A=0 v B=0, with A=B=0 the initial values T1: read(A); read(B); if A=0 then B:=B+1; write(B). T2: read(B); read(A); if B=0 then A:=A+1; write(A). I know that…
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Serial NSOperation

I have Table View Controller with collection of cells, each cell displays 2 values: ––––––––––––––––––––––––– | cell1                 | val1 | val2 | ––––––––––––––––––––––––– | cell2                 | val1 | val2 | …
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Understanding gcc optimization -o3 on a multicore system

I'm currently comparing a serial versus a parallel implementation of some code on a quad-core processor. One of the things I'd like to understand/measure is how the serial code performs when it is running on a single core. When I compile the serial…
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Synchronous functions without callbacks

Assume I have these two functions: function complex() { setTimeout(function() { console.log('complex setTimeout'); }, 1000); // assume this value is random function subFun() { …
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PBS running multiple instances of the same program with different arguments

How do you go about running the same program multiple times but with different arguments each instance on a cluster, submitted through a PBS. Also, is it possible to designate each of these programs to a separate node? Currently, if I have a PBS…
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How to convert radix sort serial code to parallel code in Matlab?

I am interested in parallel programming. I wrote a serial radix sort algorithm. Now I want to convert it to a parallel algorithm. What methodology can I apply to it in order to convert it to parallel? When I tried to apply parfor instead of for, I…
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Serial Fortran code with openMPI

I'm a newbie to parallel computing. I have to run a legacy fluid dynamics Fortran 77 code. The program is serial and runs slowly, so I was wondering about the possibility to make it run parallel (e.g. by using open MPI), without deepening into the…
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