In an attempt to speed things up, I tried using FSL on a supercomputer
we have on campus. Here is a view from "top":
IRIX64 inire 6.5 IP35 load averages: 1.00 0.71 0.32 03:09:35
184 processes: 180 sleeping, 2 zombie, 2 running
64 CPUs: 98.4% idle, 1.6% usr, 0.0% ker, 0.0% wait, 0.0% xbrk,
0.0% intr
Memory: 32G max, 31G avail, 20G free, 4096M swap, 4096M free swap
PID PGRP USERNAME PRI SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU% CPU%
COMMAND
122536 122279 dschreib 20 122M 117M run/36 2:00 11.7
99.86 film_gl
122555 122555 dschreib 20 2288K 1344K run/32 0:00 0.4
0.83 top
What I find interesting is that I am leaving the 64 processors 98%
idle, while the CPU% used by film is 99.86%.
Is this because FSL is working hard on one processor, but leaving the
others inactive? Is there anything I can do here to speed things up?
As it is, it looks like my happy little laptop can get the first level
analyses done in about the same amount of time.
Darren
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