3 papers
astro-ph2007
Getting More From Your Multicore: Exploiting OpenMP for Astronomy
Michael S. Noble
Motivated by the emergence of multicore architectures, and the reality that parallelism is rarely used for analysis in observational astronomy, we demonstrate how general users may…
cs.DC2007
Getting More From Your Multicore: Exploiting OpenMP From An Open Source Numerical Scripting Language
Michael S. Noble
We introduce SLIRP, a module generator for the S-Lang numerical scripting language, with a focus on its vectorization capabilities. We demonstrate how both SLIRP and S-Lang were ea…
astro-ph2004
VWhere: A Visual, Extensible `where' Command
Michael S. Noble
In this paper we describe "VWhere," a S-Lang guilet which augments the computational power of "where" with the point-click ease of a Gtk-based visual interface. The result is a new…