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Old   May 8, 2007, 12:09
Default Hi all... I've been using Open
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Hi all... I've been using OpenFOAM 1.3 for several months now and I've been very impressed with it's capabilities. In the 1.4 release notes, there is mention of a parallel build process with wmake, but I can't find any mention of how to initiate it.

I naively tried ./Allwmake -j 2 .. but it didn't seem to use more than one process..

Is there something I'm missing?
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Old   May 8, 2007, 22:48
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Mike,

There is a new environment variable called $WM_NCOMPPROCS.

Check out the file $WM_DIR/wmake for the details.

The funny thing is: that variable is not initialized under OpenFOAM 1.4.

Just add the following line to your $WM_PROJECT_DIR/$FOAM_DOT_DIR/bashrc

export WM_NCOMPPROCS=2

Adjust the number to the number of processors you want to use for compiling.

(For csh, adjust your file $WM_PROJECT_DIR/$FOAM_DOT_DIR/cshrc

setenv WM_NCOMPPROCS 2
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Enjoy,

Martin
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Old   May 9, 2007, 12:28
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Thanks Martin... that worked perfectly. I've been trying out some different optimizations with the pre-release GCC 4.2 and it really helps cutting the compile time down.

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Old   May 15, 2007, 04:32
Default You can also distribute parall
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You can also distribute parallel builds. Works great on clusters. See the Wiki page about wmake.
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