Re: [Help-glpk] GLPK re-endrant

2009-07-03 Thread xypron
Hello Andrew, my understanding is that the ILOG claim of >= 1.7 times faster for multithreading is on multicore CPUs. I suppose the majority of PCs nowadays has 2 to 4 cores. A much more radical possibility for parallelization is offered by using the Graphic processor of the computer with its s

Re: [Help-glpk] GLPK re-endrant

2009-07-03 Thread Andrew Makhorin
> I see two fields of applications for threading in GLPK. > ILOG describes that many MIPs can be solved >= 1.7 times > faster using multiple threads and shared memory. > http://www.ilog.com/optimization/the-right-hand-side/1/TA_Parallel_CPLEX_Dong.html > http://www.ilog.com/optimization/the-right-