Hardware support

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:15:39AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:37:20AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >   Is GRASS 5 threaded so it can run on a dual/multi-processor machine, and
> > take advantage of more than a single CPU?
> 
> No.
> Though you can run multiple commands which and they will utilise
> more as one CPU.
> 
> >   If not, is this something to be added in the future?
> 
> I am not aware of any concrete plans to add this to GRASS.

In fact there are plans to add such functionality (perhaps replacing
the internal math library links to a multi-processor supporting
library or rewriting CPU-intensive interpolation algorithms).

(New) GRASS programmers who are interested to start a project for
this, please join the GRASS developers mailing list:

http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grassdevel.html

Regards,

 Markus