From e214aab49bc83b845d045b9a2d85615ed9ad64d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Dyer Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 23:56:12 -0500 Subject: parallelize vest on large shared memory machines using fork and make --- vest/README.shared-mem | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 vest/README.shared-mem (limited to 'vest/README.shared-mem') 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. + -- cgit v1.2.3