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spMC (version 0.3.6)

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/). If the package was not complied with the library OpenMP (>= 3.0), this function is disabled.

Usage

setCores(n)

Arguments

n
an integer value denoting the number of CPU cores to use; if it exceeds the total number of cores, all of them will be used. If missing, the number of CPU cores in use will be displayed.

Value

Details

When the package is loaded, only one CPU core is used.

References

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