GUI threading question

2009-02-02 Thread jurincie
to wait for those ops to finish before loading a shared array with new data and running loop again . Is there another way to keep GUI active? Thankyou, Ron Jurincie ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests

Anyone actually used OpenMP with cocoa on leopard 10.5?

2009-01-31 Thread jurincie
Jurincie jurin...@eecs.utk.edu ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your

How many processors?

2009-01-31 Thread jurincie
On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:31 PM, jurin...@eecs.utk.edu wrote: I am developing a computationally intense application which I need to multi-process to take advantage of the 8 cpu's on my new MacPro with dual quads. I am using Leopard 10.5 OS. Your machine has two CPU's, not eight. Really?? I

New question about borken NSOperationQueue

2009-01-31 Thread jurincie
I have a computationally intensive modeling application which I NEED to multi-process, I am trying to avoid low level calls to pthread and tcb block. In order to get my GUI running I had to create a NSOperationQueue and run my big method via a NSInvocationOperation. Previous post indicates that

maximum theoretical speedup with dual quad processors

2009-01-31 Thread jurincie
I have a bullet-proof scientific app I developed using cocoa. I just purchased a new MacPro with the dual quad processors. Earlier posts attempting to determine MAXIMUM theoretical speedup have gotten bogged down with semantic differencea between a corea and a CPUa. Having done EXTENSIVE

maximum speedup bound on multi-core processors

2009-01-31 Thread jurincie
). If each procssor run numCore threads non-concurrently the answer is (A). If anyone REALLY knows please help a frustrated cocoa developer out. Thanks, Ron Jurincie jurin...@eecs.utk.edu ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com

OpenMP installation question on Leopard 10.5.6

2009-01-30 Thread jurincie
Jurincie jurin...@eecs.utk.edu ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your

NSOperationQueue bug with leopard 10.5.6?

2009-01-30 Thread jurincie
NSOperationQueue has a bug with Leopard 10.5, that will be fixed with 10.6. Q1: does anyone know when 10.6 is scheduled for release? Q2: is there in fact a bug with 10.5 and NSOperationQueue? Thankyou, Ron Jurincie jurin...@eecs.utk.edu ___ Cocoa