Spanning multiple CPUs

[Guest]

I have a program that takes way to long to complete some number crunching stuff. Unfortunatly it was not designed to work on multiple processors. We cannot rewrite the application right away. So we are stuck.

I am looking for a way to trick this application into using 2 or more processors. Does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks
=ryan

 

[Matisaro]

Run it two times and have them both working on different numbers?

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[Guest]

Thanks - we have thought of doing this, however the nature of this particular application will not allow us this option. Any other ideas!?

Has anyone ever seen any application to span multiple CPUs?

thanks,ryan

 

[FatBurger]

I don't think there's any other way to do it.

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[Raystonn]

You basically have three choices here. 1) Run it multiples times so each process can get assigned to a different processor. 2) Purchase an extremely fast processor and keep running one instance of it. 3) Rewrite the application to use multiple threads to perform the work.

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