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Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Multi-threading EnergyPlus

I believe that NREL is running E+ on clusters.

Bing

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Edwin Lee <leeed2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   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 <andrew.tsakmakis%40arup.com>>
> 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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>


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