Dear Monks,

I seek enlightenment about how to run a subroutine several times parallel. The idea is to imitate Parallel::ForkManager which I can't use in that setup. I have a set of matrices to analyse and would like to run one analysis on each processor.

The machine I am working on at the moment has 8 processor and I have 40 matrices. So I'd like to start analysing 8 and once one is finished the next run should start.

I started looking into forking, but failed at the IPC.

The only thing that is happening is that a subroutine that takes only an ID as argument, changes into a directory with that name and executes a binary. Once that program is finished, the next run should be initiated, but never more than 8 at a time.

Many thanks for any help / suggestions

In reply to parallelising processes by RobertCraven

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