Multiple processor support

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:47:24AM -0500, Neal FLanagan wrote:
> A question form a GRASS Newbie:  does grass support multiple processors?
AFAIK GRASS does _not_ support any parallel processing.

As GRASS runs most commands on the shell, the computer can do load
balancing for each started command.

> If so, is this feature require the use of a special flag during
> compiling?  If not, are there plans to support multi processing in the
> future?

To actually make use of more than on processor, you need
task, which profit from running parallel. Most commands in grass
are not written this way. It would be a quite a bit of development 
support to parallelise some modules. But if you need a special
module you might get it done pretty fast.

I hope this answers your question.
	Bernhard
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