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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Using other computers for processing Post 302152404 by porter on Wednesday 19th of December 2007 07:16:39 PM
Old 12-19-2007
Yes.

Option a. Run it on a faster computer.

After that the options get a bit harder....

Can you split the problem up so that different computers can solve different parts of the problem independently?

Can you split it up so that parts can be done in parallel?

Have you got a really crap algorithm that may be mathmatically correct but is really inefficient?

Can you solve the problem at different resolutions/accuracies so you apply varying amounts of horse power to different parts of the problem?

If you are curious, one of the recent proofs of minimum moves to solve the rubik's cube used the last of the options....
 

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ppmquantall(1)						      General Commands Manual						    ppmquantall(1)

NAME
ppmquantall - run ppmquant on a bunch of files all at once, so they share a common colormap SYNOPSIS
ppmquantall [-ext extension] ncolors ppmfile ... DESCRIPTION
Takes a bunch of portable pixmap as input. Chooses ncolors colors to best represent all of the images, maps the existing colors to the new ones, and overwrites the input files with the new quantized versions. If you don't want to overwrite your input files, use the -ext option. The output files are then named the same as the input files, plus a period and the extension text you specify. Verbose explanation: Let's say you've got a dozen pixmaps that you want to display on the screen all at the same time. Your screen can only display 256 different colors, but the pixmaps have a total of a thousand or so different colors. For a single pixmap you solve this problem with ppmquant; this script solves it for multiple pixmaps. All it does is concatenate them together into one big pixmap, run ppmquant on that, and then split it up into little pixmaps again. (Note that another way to solve this problem is to pre-select a set of colors and then use ppmquant's -map option to separately quantize each pixmap to that set.) SEE ALSO
ppmquant(1), ppm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. 27 July 1990 ppmquantall(1)
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