Hello, I do this almost everyday so I think I should share it with this list.
In case you need to execute many Open Babel commands and don't want to wait, you can execute them in parallel on a multi-core computer. Of course, the commands should be independent, for example processing different datasets. Let's say the commands are in a file called for_par.sh. I developped a tool called PAR years ago that can do this: par -i for_par.sh -v -o log It will use all cores of the computer, display a completion percentage and store all output messages in the file log. If your user can connect to several computers e.g. via SSH then you can even run commands in a distributed manner. I use it daily on Linux but know some people used it on Mac OS X as well. The project is there: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/par The paper is freely available there: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/22/2918.long -- Best regards, Francois Berenger. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
