Multiprocessor PC

From: "Steven L. Shafer" <Steven.Shafer@stanford.edu> Subject: Multiprocessor PC Date: 21 Nov 1997 22:48:05 -0500 I've been running NONMEM on a multiprocessor PC (dual Pentium Pro 200) for about a year now, and it works marvelously, as Dr. Sabo states. If you write your own PREDs, and these have big loops to process, then you can utilize the multiprocessing ability within your PRED routine by setting up multiple threads. Win NT is happy to run these on separate processors, and will do it automatically. The tools for synchronizing the threads aren't difficult to set up. However, I wouldn't recommend getting into the NONMEM code proper, although there are probably many areas that would could be run on dual processors, because probably only Stu Beal understands it well enough to deal with the timing subtleties. Steve Shafer