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[amibroker] Re: Multi CPU anytime soon?



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Seems my post is lost in the ether, trying again.

It's possible to run the different situations in an optimization and
get a big boost on multi-core processors at least.  I run two
instances of Amibroker all the time to do different optimization runs
at the same time.

Thanks,
Qin

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> Support for multi-CPU / multi-core is already available in many
areas mainly related to database handling,
> for example:
> 
> - selected real time plugins use multi-threaded processing of data
(IQFeed plugin, IB plugin)
> - Indicator Maintenance wizard is multi threaded
> - some internal operations regardling list view are done in separate
thread
> - automatic trading interface (IBController) runs in separate thread
> - AmiQuote is fully multi-threading program (it can run as much as
21 threads at the same time)
> 
> As far as optimization is considered, it is not multi-threaded right
now. It is not a matter of
> "making it MT" but the matter of actually getting speed advantage.
You need to understand
> that things that run on multiple cores are not necesarily faster.
Actually they can be slower
> due to cache misses/invalidations/memory access conflicts/context
switching etc. 
> There are functions (like Foreign) in the AFL that inherently lead
to data access conflicts when run on more than one CPU/core.
> 
> I have done *many* benchmarks of various real-world scenarios and my
findings are that you need
> to be very careful on what you actually put into multi-threading
code because you may end up
> having actually slower result. This is especially the case for tight
hand coded loops that AFL uses
> to process arrays. They execute 2 to 3 times faster on single core
than when same loop is divided
> into multiple cores. You will start getting 10% advantage only when
you proceess arrays larger than 100000 bars.
> This is rare and not really worth effort as it simply bogs down your
computer and you can hardly move your mouse.
> 
> So different approaches are tested on real-world data and real-world
code and I actually measure the time
> of execution, and will only release any MT addition *IF* speed
advantage is at least 40% under regular use.
> 
> Please note that such tests and benchmarking is pretty time
consuming and I am not giving you any dates.
> We will see - the work continues.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "joelamibroker" <joelamibroker@xxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:22 PM
> Subject: [amibroker] Multi CPU anytime soon?
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Support for multiple CPUs has been discussed for over a year now.
> > 
> > Is there any chance that we will be seeing this feature for
optimisations?
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>




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