[Nottingham] [Talk] *Wed* 03/03/2010 Parallel BASH

[Martin]

Folks,

*Tomorrow*

> Note the change of day to *Wednesdays* for the talks meets. Good, bad,
> or indifferent? Let me know please!
> 
> 
> From prior discussions of primes and bash and various, we're having a:
> 
> Parallel BASH
> =============
> 
> Or:
> 
> How to make use of all of your multiple CPU cores from just one command
> line or script;
> 
> Or how to run tasks faster;
> 
> Or how to get really dizzy trying to follow what's happening! :-)
> 
> Including, how to find a few primes using bash. Anyone up for concocting
> the fastest bash script for finding all primes from 2 to 2^32? (As timed
> on my Atom based netbook.)

Errrr... That's a bit too big of a number and would make for a very long
demo! Instead, 2 to 2^16 is a much more reasonable range to avoid people
going to sleep :-)


> For expert and novice alike, it all should be good fun!
> 
> 
> All at our usual Navvy to also navigate a few stories and a few beers:
> 
> 
> The Navigation
> 
> http://www.thenavvy.co.uk/
> 
> *WEDNESDAY* 03/03/2010
> 
> Meet:	19:30
> (in the bar somewhere - look for penguins or just shout "where's NLUG!")
> 
> Talk/Questions/Discussion:	20:00
> (in the room upstairs)
> 
> Beers and Linux and other topics until 23:00
> 
> The Navigation Inn
> 6 Wilford Street
> Nottingham
> NG2 1AA
> Tel: 0115 9417139
> 
> http://www.pub-explorer.com/notts/pub/navigationinnnottingham.htm
> http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=52.948&lon=-1.1518&scale=10000&icon=x
> 
> We head up to the large room upstairs at round abouts 8pm.
> And the gallon of beer question is: Is the WiFi access there now?!
> 
> 
> To find us, just look for any penguins or a cluster of netbooks!
> Or ask the friendly bar staff.

All welcome,

See ya there,

Cheers,
Martin


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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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