Parallel execution
It is highly recommended to run MDDF calculations in parallel, using multiple processors of a single computer. To run the computation in parallel, initialize julia with the -t auto option:
julia -t autoThe computation will use a number of threads equal to the number of physical cores of the computer. The number of computation threads to be used can be set by the Options(nthreads=N) parameter, where N is an integer. Hyperthreading (using more threads than physical CPUs) usually does not provide a significant speedup, and can be detrimental in some cases.
To directly run a script in parallel, use:
julia -t auto example.jlThe number of threads used for computation of the MDDF is the number of physical CPUs of the computer, which are obtained programmatically. Most times the use of hyper-threading is not beneficial. Adjust the number of threads with the Options(nthreads=N) parameter.
If the calculations get Killed by no apparent reason, that is probably because you are running out of memory because of the many parallel computations running. One way to alleviate this problem is to force garbage collection, using
options = Options(GC=true,GC_threshold=0.5)
R = mddf(trajectory,options)
The GC_threshold=0.5 indicates that if the free memory is smaller than 50% of the total memory of the machine, a garbage-collection run will occur. The default parameters are GC=true and GC_threshold=0.1.