multiple processes on laptop

Joseph Mack mack.joseph at epa.gov
Sat Feb 15 13:10:51 PST 2003


Frank Muldoon wrote:
> 
> I have a Fortran 95/MPI parallel program that I run on my laptop for
> testing.  If I have the ethernet card plugged into a live cable I can
> run 32 jobs on the laptop easily.  If there is no cable or a dead cable
> plugged in then my program runs very slow. It takes for ever for the 32
> processes to spawn.

I'm not sure if this will help but the dummy device was written
so that machines would think they were still on the internet.

Joe

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Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, SAIC contractor 
to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center, 
ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA. mailto:mack.joseph at epa.gov



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