Geraint,
Ah, yes, sorry: my information was for version <= 5.2. It is unfortunate
that they've dropped the multithreaded feature in version 5.3.
-Tom
Excerpts from SPM-help#: 27-May-99 Re: SPM and computing power by
Geraint [log in to unmask]
> Dear Tom,
>
> |Actually this isn't quite right; this mail from a Mathworks person
> |should clarify:
>
> I'm confused here then, as the information posted on the Mathworks site
> is not consistent with this. Mathworks states (as you say) that although
> MATLAB 5.0-5.2 will take advantage of multiple processors on SGI, this is
> no longer true of MATLAB 5.3. The direct quote from Mathworks (poster at
> http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/v5/1913.shtml) is:
>
> >However, this is no longer true as of MATLAB 5.3. In MATLAB 5.3, even
> >under the SGI and Solaris platforms, MATLAB will be a single threaded
> >application, and will not be able to take advantage of multiple
> >processors.
>
> best,
>
> Geraint
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