Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Multi-threading EnergyPlus

["Edwin Lee" <leeed2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I know, (and I will in no way claim to be an expert in the
subject), the calculation engine in E+ (successive substitution) does not
gain anything from being run on multiple cores of a pc or a pc cluster.  In
a program like Fluent, the domain can be broken into separate chunks, and
only data at each boundary need be communicated.  For E+, information is
flying all over the place.  One thing people use multiple computers for is
to start multiple instances of E+ to run multiple simulations at the same
time.

If anyone out there has any more to say, please fill in the gaps or correct
me - or back me up :) -

Edwin

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:13 PM, andrew.tsakmakis <andrew.tsakmakis@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>   Hello,
>
> Is there a pre-compiled, multi-threaded version of EnergyPlus for use
> on multicore PC's or clusters available? (preferably windows but could
> be linux)
>
> Many Thanks
> Andrew
>
>  
>


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