spMC (version 0.2.2)

setCores: Set the number of CPU cores for HPC

Description

The function set the number of CPU cores for parallel computation by the use of OpenMP library (http://openmp.org/).

Usage

setCores(n)

Value

A message will be displayed. No values are returned.

Rdversion

1.1

Details

When the package is loaded, all CPU cores are used by default!

References

SunTM ONE Studio 8 (2003) OpenMP API User's Guide. Sun Microsystems Inc., Santa Clara, U.S.A.

Examples

#Display the number of CPU cores in use
setCores()

#Set 2 CPU cores for parallel computation
setCores(2)

#Set 1 CPU core for serial computation
setCores(1)