Re: What do you use GNU Parallel for?

2012-08-22 Thread Matt Oates (Home)
Hi Ole, On 22 August 2012 07:08, Ole Tange wrote: > So please write a few lines about the tasks you use it for - > especially if you have reason to believe you are one of the few doing > that kind of thing. If you want to be anonymous you can write me > directly, but otherwise use the mailing lis

Re: What do you use GNU Parallel for?

2012-08-22 Thread William Oquendo
Hi, I use parallel to run/control/monitor many parametric simulations of granular materials. Let's say I have to explore how a parameter affects another one. It means 20 data points in the final curve. But each data point is a set of 10 simulations which should be averaged. And I need to have 5 cur

Re: What do you use GNU Parallel for?

2012-08-22 Thread Rhys Ulerich
> So please write a few lines about the tasks you use it for - > especially if you have reason to believe you are one of the few doing > that kind of thing. Like others, I have used parallel to perform parameter sweeps for my scientific simulation code. I often use parallel as a poor man's batch

Re: What do you use GNU Parallel for?

2012-08-22 Thread Ole Tange
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Rhys Ulerich wrote: >> So please write a few lines about the tasks you use it for - >> especially if you have reason to believe you are one of the few doing >> that kind of thing. > > Like others, I have used parallel to perform parameter sweeps for my > scientific

Re: What do you use GNU Parallel for?

2012-08-22 Thread Shao Zhang
I work in the film industry. I use Parallel to convert movie frames(images) from one format to another usually for delivery to other studios. Its much easier and faster to pipe in the result of a recursive find than to use any of the gui apps we have to convert tens/hundreds of thousands of files

Re: What do you use GNU Parallel for?

2012-08-22 Thread Rhys Ulerich
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Ole Tange wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Rhys Ulerich wrote: >>> So please write a few lines about the tasks you use it for - >>> especially if you have reason to believe you are one of the few doing >>> that kind of thing. >> >> Like others, I have use

Re: What do you use GNU Parallel for?

2012-08-22 Thread Jon Wilson
On 08/22/2012 02:08 AM, Ole Tange wrote: > I have been invited as a speaker. For my talk I would like to give > people an idea of how diverse the uses of GNU Parallel are. > > So please write a few lines about the tasks you use it for - > especially if you have reason to believe you are one of the

GNU Parallel 20120722 ('Nai Soi') released

2012-08-22 Thread Ole Tange
(Version 20127022 did not hit the ftp server on 20120722). GNU Parallel 20127022 ('Nai Soi') has been released. It is available for download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/ This is a bugfix release with no new features. Probably a good release for stable long-term use. * GNU Parallel was pr

GNU Parallel 20120822 ('Boson') released

2012-08-22 Thread Ole Tange
GNU Parallel 20120822 ('Boson') has been released. It is available for download at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parallel/ New in this release: * Due to a bugfix the main flow has changed. Making this release beta quality. * Parallel Proxy Scraper & Checker Tool https://www.youtu