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| author | Chris Dyer <cdyer@cs.cmu.edu> | 2011-02-06 23:56:12 -0500 |
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| committer | Chris Dyer <cdyer@cs.cmu.edu> | 2011-02-06 23:56:12 -0500 |
| commit | e214aab49bc83b845d045b9a2d85615ed9ad64d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 8403539304cd4206a52cf6024780e1584d09823d /vest/README.shared-mem | |
| parent | 6e348e552ca8551cf54c1610f6e02f7058b60f09 (diff) | |
parallelize vest on large shared memory machines using fork and make
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diff --git a/vest/README.shared-mem b/vest/README.shared-mem new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7728efc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/vest/README.shared-mem @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +If you want to run dist-vest.pl on a very large shared memory machine, do the +following: + + ./dist-vest.pl --use-make I --decode-nodes J --weights weights.init --source-file=dev.src --ref-files=dev.ref.* cdec.ini + +This will use I jobs for doing the line search and J jobs to run the decoder. Typically, since the +decoder must load grammars, language models, etc., J should be smaller than I, but this will depend +on the system you are running on and the complexity of the models used for decoding. + |